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Package your Node.js project into an executable

44 mentions on Hacker News by 36 people: 4 stories, 40 comments · first 2017-04-29 · latest 2024-04-01

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  1. I don't remember the details, and cannot find my notes on vercel/pkg. But looking at https://github.com/vercel/pkg right now I see the project has been deprecated in favour of single-executable-applications
    comment by dgellow · 2024-04-01 · in Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing
  2. …not embedding Node. Particularly when it depends on using Vercel's now-abandoned pkg[1] tool. [1] https://github.com/vercel/pkg
    comment by acaloiar · 2024-03-06 · in Open-sourcing our progress on Tailwind CSS v4.0
  3. …awesome game changer for node.js when the feature gets rounded out. Also check out vercel's `pkg`: https://github.com/vercel/pkg/issues/1291
    comment by okhuman · 2023-07-05 · in Deno 1.35: A fast and convenient way to build web servers
  4. There is also https://github.com/vercel/pkg
    comment by vdfs · 2023-05-16 · in Bun 0.6
  5. …slower than bun but faster than Node. Bundling is easy too, you can take a loot at vercel/pkg https://github.com/vercel/pkg
    comment by pzmarzly · 2023-05-08 · in Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
  6. You don't even need that: https://github.com/vercel/pkg . I think there are equivalents in the Python ecosystem.
    comment by eatonphil · 2023-01-12 · in From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
  7. https://github.com/vercel/pkg
    comment by hypfer · 2023-01-07 · in Valetudo – Free your vacuum cleaner from the cloud
  8. …it just bundles the entire .Net runtime with the compiled image. It's basically the equivalent of https://github.com/vercel/pkg or similar tools.
    comment by yawaramin · 2022-10-06 · in Memories: Edinburgh ML to Standard ML
  9. …also Pkg from Vercel for those things. Happy user. Package your Node.js project into an executable https://github.com/vercel/pkg
    comment by throwaway888abc · 2022-08-04 · in Nextjs in a Binary
  10. …[0]: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless [1]: https://hub.docker.com/_/scratch/ [2]: https://github.com/vercel/pkg [3]: https://docs.keydb.dev
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-07-16 · in I deleted 78% of my Redis container and it still works
  11. An alternative to Electron I like is Vercel Pkg https://github.com/vercel/pkg . You write a server in Node.js, compile it to an exe with Vercel Pkg and users run the exe on their local machine and use it with their browser. Instead of…
    comment by galaxyLogic · 2022-06-16 · in Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
  12. …with building ARM binaries and with less gotchas with multiplatform builds, in my experience. [1]: https://github.com/vercel/pkg
    comment by ISV_Damocles · 2022-04-18 · in Nexe: Create a single executable out of your Node.js apps
  13. pkg is another one: https://github.com/vercel/pkg It can cross-compile too.
    comment by danenania · 2022-03-02 · in Single binary executable packages
  14. …[4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in... [5] https://github.com/vercel/pkg
    comment by drowe859 · 2021-11-23 · in Ask HN: What are the fundamental diffs between modern web vs. desktop UI models
  15. pkg: https://github.com/vercel/pkg
    comment by valbaca · 2021-09-15 · in The pleasure of writing Go
  16. You can do this with Node.js as well using: https://github.com/vercel/pkg
    comment by hashbig · 2021-08-11 · in Deno 1.13 Release
  17. …and bundles that with the Node binary [1]. [0] https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/10507 [1] https://github.com/vercel/pkg
    comment by ksbrooksjr · 2021-08-10 · in Deno 1.13 Release
  18. If you want to do this with node, pkg exists. https://github.com/vercel/pkg
    comment by beaker52 · 2021-04-14 · in Deno 1.9
  19. …in order to achieve a similar target and package a whole application into a standalone executable: https://github.com/vercel/pkg This can be useful for people wanting to do this with Node. It's nice to have a single file that can be…
    comment by j1elo · 2020-12-09 · in Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable
  20. …would consider something like pkg[0] to make their node program into a single executable [0]: https://github.com/vercel/pkg
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2020-10-25 · in Vdx – An intuitive CLI for processing video, powered by FFmpeg
  21. I wonder how this differs from https://github.com/vercel/pkg which is a way to compile a Node.js executable into an exe on different platforms. Then build a thin server-layer to let bowser serve as your GUI. ?
    comment by galaxyLogic · 2020-10-17 · in ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable
  22. …the heck is a "JavaScript God Mode" anyway? At first sight it sounds like they compete with pkg https://github.com/zeit/pkg but i've never heard of them before, so I'm guessing maybe I'm misunderstanding what they do. Can anyone provide…
    comment by cocktailpeanuts · 2020-05-18 · in JavaScript God Mode
  23. …nexe doesn't support native Node modules either, IIRC. [1] https://github.com/nexe/nexe [2] https://github.com/zeit/pkg
    comment by folkrav · 2019-02-04 · in Stylelint – A modern linter for CSS
  24. …a JS package manager is a bit much. Don't underestimate the value of a download button/link. 0 - https://github.com/zeit/pkg
    comment by kodablah · 2018-11-08 · in The Lounge – Modern cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client
  25. …pkg is recommended for bundling the Node app so I imagine the bundle includes V8 and Node. https://github.com/zeit/pkg
    comment by pier25 · 2018-11-01 · in Carlo – Web rendering surface for Node applications
  26. …of bundling a node app somewhere? I'm curious how it compares to using something like pkg [0]. [0] https://github.com/zeit/pkg
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2018-07-13 · in XARs: An efficient system for self-contained executables
  27. …[2] https://inedo.com/proget [3] https://github.com/rlidwka/sinopia [4] https://webpack.js.org/ [5] https://github.com/zeit/pkg
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2018-03-30 · in Time for developers to address the chaos of Node.js and NPM
  28. https://github.com/zeit/pkg can package up Node projects into a single executable.
    comment by lachenmayer · 2018-03-23 · in Open Sourcing Oclif, the CLI Framework That Powers Our CLIs
  29. …it), optionally being able to autoupdate with github or s3. oclif is also compatible with pkg ( https://github.com/zeit/pkg ) which will turn the CLI into a dependency-less single binary just like it would be with Go. I don't like it…
    comment by dickeytk · 2018-03-22 · in Open Sourcing Oclif, the CLI Framework That Powers Our CLIs
  30. …a binary. Then put it in a directory in your $PATH and you'll be able to run it as `fibonacci`. [0] https://github.com/zeit/pkg
    comment by ludlu · 2018-03-19 · in Show HN: Noderize – Create Node apps in 30 seconds
  31. …https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed [2] https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib [3] https://github.com/zeit/pkg
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2018-02-01 · in GRV – Git Repository Viewer
  32. …That means you can just copy a single a file and upgrade without having to take anything down. [0] https://github.com/zeit/pkg [1] https://hexdocs.pm/distillery/getting-started.html
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2017-11-09 · in Learning Go by porting a medium-sized web back end from Python
  33. Something like https://github.com/zeit/pkg ?
    comment by mlcdf · 2017-08-19 · in Why Go is my favorite programming language
  34. …using Clojure/ClojureScript, this gives you that an additional option, where none existed. [1] https://github.com/zeit/pkg [2] https://clojurescript.org/guides/native-executables [3] https://github.com/nexe/nexe
    comment by priornix · 2017-07-15 · in How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month
  35. …[1] https://github.com/nexe/nexe [2] https://clojurescript.org/guides/native-executables [3] https://github.com/zeit/pkg
    comment by priornix · 2017-07-15 · in How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month
  36. …directory spec [3]. [0] https://www.shellcheck.net [1] http://documentup.com/shelljs/shelljs [2] https://github.com/zeit/pkg [3] https://github.com/elves/elvish/issues/383
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2017-07-05 · in Elvish: friendly and expressive shell for Linux, macOS and BSDs
  37. …[7] https://github.com/chjj/blessed [8] https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed [9] https://github.com/zeit/pkg
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2017-05-23 · in Ask HN: Good examples of interactive command-line user experience?
  38. how does that compare to the numbers for pkg, that Zeit just released and was on HN a few days ago? https://github.com/zeit/pkg
    comment by TheRealPomax · 2017-05-05 · in Node.js Compiler – Compiling your Node.js application into a single executable
  39. How is this different than zeit's recently released pkg? https://github.com/zeit/pkg
    comment by vmasto · 2017-05-05 · in Node.js Compiler – Compiling your Node.js application into a single executable
  40. Just wanted to mention a similar project, which was recently announced by Zeit, called "pkg": https://github.com/zeit/pkg
    comment by slgg · 2017-05-05 · in Node.js Compiler – Compiling your Node.js application into a single executable