How to Host node application in IIS?

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Prashant Mohite picture Prashant Mohite · Mar 18, 2016 · Viewed 16.1k times · Source

I am developing an application in mean-stack. The only the difference is that I want to host my application in IIS rather than express.js. Is it possible or feasible to do so? What are possible advantages and disadvantages? Thanks in advance.

Answer

Maurits Rijk picture Maurits Rijk · Mar 18, 2016

It seems to be possible: Hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows. That site even mentions some benefits. To be honest, I have no first hand experience (or need) to run Node on IIS.

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