Running a Node.Js script as a custom shortcut

Question

I'm trying to create a node script that will run on a keyboard command. I added a custom keyboard shortcut:

node /full/path/index.js

Also tried to create an executable bash script that will run the node command and it doesn't work.

bash commands run, but the node doesn't.

any ideas?

Answer 1

Manage to solve it - make the file a node js executable.

Steps:

1) Add a node shabang to the node.js script, usually:

#!/bin/env node

2) Define custom shortcut command as the full path to the file, i.e:

/full/path/to/file/index.js

3) Make file executable, using chmod:

sudo chmod +x /full/path/to/file/index.js

Hope it helps :)