Most of my web-stuff is on Apache. Which works fine, has TLS/SSL enabled, etc.
But I wanted to do server-side JavaScript. Which somehow is a forrest without trees, or a nightmare to get started, especially on OpenSuSE.
First of all, virtually all examples explain how to run node as a script. But none explain where to save it, how to run it as a service (and restart when it crashes: it will crash) or how to run multiple sites under it. And the scripts seems to listen to a TCP port by themselves so they operate as a full server by themselves. Nice for a fully fledged portal, but not for some one-offs.
Some links below hopefully will get me re-started later on, but for now, I’ve given up: the out-of-the-box experience is totally non-intuitive.
Maybe what I really want is something else: I want JavaScript stuff that normally renders a page in the browser through the dom to run server side so I can run XMLHttpRequest to various places without bumping into CORS stuff but still render a page DOM.
If you know a better way to do what I want (serving small mostly single-page scripts written in an easy to debug/trace language) let me know.
So basically work around this:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://myApiUrl/login. No
'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
resource. Origin 'null' is therefore not allowed access.
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