As of December 2018, latest version of ShabadOS doesn’t come packaged as a binary/executable to install in Windows or any other OS. You must use the steps below.

If node/npm is missing on command line:

• Install Chocolatey
• Optional
  • In administrative shell (same thing used above to install chocolate), run choco install chocolateygui
  • Run chocolateygui
• Install nvm Chocolatey (or the GUI).
• nvm install 10.14.5

To install ShabadOS

• In “elevated” command prompt, run npm i -g --production windows-build-tools --vs2015
  • Be very patient!
  • Using the vs2015 allows us to be able to install sqlite3, which doesn’t work with the newest version of windows-build-tools (vs2017).
• git clone https://github.com/ShabadOS/desktop.git ShabadOS-desktop
• cd ShabadOS-desktop
• npm install
• npm run dev to run on default development port 3000.
  • NOTE: npm run pack or npm run dist do not work.

Tips

• To get a Windows shortcut for this. Create a .bat file with contents:

cd ShabadOS-desktop
set PORT=42424 # i.e. the port you want it to run on. 3000 is useful enough to keep for your daily development needs.
npm run dev