How do I communicate with a native executable from a nodejs server?

Question

I am evaluating what to use for a simple web service. I have a c++ program that takes some queries and generates html pages.

How do I call this executable from a server I am writing in javascript?

If there is a better tool for the task, suggestions are welcome.

I haven't done that but looking at the code of https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport seems like he calls c++ from node.js. — Tiberiu C., May 28 '15 at 21:48
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12941083/get-the-output-of-a-shell-command-in-node-js — dandavis, May 28 '15 at 21:50
@curieux: note the distinction between using c++ code in a node module and using node with an existing c++ application... — dandavis, May 28 '15 at 21:52

Trott · Answer 1 · 2015-05-28T21:50:27.493

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If you want to launch the C++ program as a separate process, take a look at ChildProcess with special attention on spawn(), and exec().

If you want to treat it as a dynamically linked shared object, look at Addons.

edited May 28 '15 at 21:50

answered May 28 '15 at 21:46

Trott

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