Sending command-line parameters when using node-windows to create a service

Question

I've built some custom middleware on Node.js for a client which runs great in user space, but I want to make it a service.

I've accomplished this using node-windows, which works great, but the client has occasional large bursts of data so I'd like to allocate a little more memory using the --max-old-space-size command line parameter. Unfortunately, I don't see how to configure that in my service set-up wrapper for node-windows.

Any suggestions?

FWIW, I'm also thinking about changing how I parse the data, e.g. treating it more as a stream, but since this is the first time I've used Node and the project is going live in a couple of days, I'm hoping to find a quick and dirty option that'll get us to an up-and-running status easily, to be adjusted later.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use node-windows v0.1.14 or higher. The ability to add flags was merged in this version. The more appropriate issue related to this is https://github.com/coreybutler/node-windows/issues/159.