Starting the Vuforia Spatial Edge Server on Windows

Install Node

Follow the instructions on Node’s website to install node and npm: https://nodejs.org/en/. Make sure to click the checkbox to install Chocolatey during the setup process. If installation succeeded, you’ll be able to open Command Prompt and run node --version:

Get the Edge Server

Install GitHub Desktop (Optional)

Follow the instructions on GitHub’s website to install the GitHub desktop app. Open it up and sign in to get started.

Download Edge Server

With GitHub Desktop

In GitHub Desktop select Clone Repository (under the “Add” menu if the button isn’t immediately visible). Once there, paste the edge server’s repository url, https://github.com/ptcrealitylab/vuforia-spatial-edge-server/ and click Clone.

With a Browser

Download the current source code from this link and unzip it. In the following example I’ve unzipped it then moved it into my Documents directory:

Install Dependencies

Track down the Edge Server directory from the previous step in Command Prompt or PowerShell. If you put the edge server in your Documents directory and kept the default name vuforia-spatial-edge-server, you can get to it with the command cd C:\Users\{your username}\Documents\vuforia-spatial-edge-server.

Once you’re in the correct directory, you can confirm this with the command dir which should output something close to the following:

Now that you’ve confirmed that you’re in the right location you can run the command npm install.

We also need to install the dependencies for the core add-on. In the edge server directory, run cd addons/vuforia-spatial-core-addon to get into the core add-on’s main directory. Here you can run npm install again to install the core add-on’s specific dependencies.

Start the Edge Server

Now, return to the edge server’s directory by running cd ../../. You can confirm you’re in the correct directory by running dir again. Now you’re here, you can run npm start to start the server.