Phaser on NodeJS

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I am trying to run Phaser on a Node server, I did it as described here: http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/7393-running-phaser-on-nodejs-how-i-did-it-and-why-you-shouldnt-do-it/

Everything seems ok (the script starts Phaser, enters the boot state). The problem is that it makes an XHR request and throws error at this._xhr.open. This may be because I load resources (sprite images). How can I overcome this problem? I have tried installing a Node XHR, but says the protocol is not valid (the protocol used by Phaser when loading an image I guess). How can I correctly load sprites? Or, how can I stop sprites from loading (be able to use them, but as empty images, anyway I don't render them on the server).

 

Spent a few hours on this and still no results, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[tips4design]

Using this XHR instead of the default XHR module seemed to have fix the problem: https://www.npmjs.com/package/local-xmlhttprequest

 

Some other tips for running a Phaser game on NodejS using the exact same code as on the client:

 

• Most of the steps here still apply: http://www.html5game...shouldnt-do-it/ . Encountered problems while installing node canvas, fixed them by isntalling Node.js 32bit instead of 64bit.
• Use requireJS client and server side, because on node there is no index.html file in which you can include script tags
• Define each of your game files as requireJS modules, make sure to use a define gist to work with requireJS on the server
• I needed to use the above library, local-xhtmlhttprequest in order to be able to load images on the server. I encountered some problems with the paths (first XHR request was fine, second was requesting from the node_modules folder instead of the correct path). Hack fixed it by using the absolute path.