Add Windows Support

[brock]

I don't develop on Windows, so I don't know all the install paths that might exist on a Windows environment and any caveats of those installations, otherwise I'd happily support that here.

This is an open issue so feel free to share any ideas or tidbits of knowledge that you think might be helpful.

controlling flow

• Create a node-reinstall.bat
• I'm guessing that we'd have a higher level script that checks the OS, then calls .sh script or the .bat script on Windows. Maybe not. Will have to see if the norm is to tell people to run the .bat on Windows themselves.

the batch script should:

• delete the npm and npm.cmd files in $HOME\AppData\Roaming\npm
• delete the node_modules directory in $HOME\AppData\Roaming\npm
• possibly more...

[stephenwade]

@mathiask88's comment on this node issue may be helpful.

[brock]

thanks @stephenwade
I don't have a Windows machine or VM setup at the moment, but I'll update the top comment here with a checklist.

[alberttwong]

I wonder if an ansible script would help you out. Ansible works for windows and linux based machines. http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/npm_module.html

also there is if command so you'd be able to execute a set of linux or window tasks (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_windows_modules.html)

[brock]

I have a Windows machine in the house now, so I'm planning to install Node and attempt to document a re-install. Bill Gates has been dogging me about this issue and frankly, he's just kinda wearing me down.

[brock]

I'll add a $10 bounty to this one as well. PayPal, Venmo or Crypto.