Windows Service for Deno

A Deno library that provides a simple way to create Windows services using Deno applications without any external tools.

Features

Run Deno applications as Windows services
React to events like “stop”, “pause”, and “continue” from the Windows Service Manager

Installation

To use the windows-service library in your project, add the following import statement:

import { WindowsService } from "https://deno.land/x/windows_service/mod.ts";

Usage

// Create a new WindowsService instance
const service = new WindowsService("MyDenoServiceWithCallbacks");

// Define the main function for your service
async function main() {
  console.log("Service started.");
  // Your service logic here...
}

// Set the main function as the entry point
service.on("main", async () => {
  await main()

  // This sends a message to SCM that the service has stopped, and makes some cleanup
  exampleService.stop()
});

// This is a request from the SCM to stop the service
exampleService.on("stop", () => {
  // Do stuff ...

  // Do stop the service
  // - This is done automatically if no handler for 'stop' event is defined.
  //   But included here for demonstration.
  exampleService.stop()
})

// Start the service
service.start();

For more details and examples, please refer to the example implementation.

Install the service with

sc.exe create my-test-service binPath= "c:\full\path\to\deno.exe run -A --unstable --allow-ffi C:/path/to/windows-service/example.ts"s

Note Both –unstable and –allow-ffi is required at the moment

Note 2 It is not possible to run a compiled binary as a windows service yet

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.md for more details.