Compiling Uncompilable

Some people may actually know that I'm spending insane amounts of time on really stupid things - so welcome to next episode of "I have time and I do not know what do with it...". Previously this repository was dedicated for compiling Node.js projects into binaries (incld. How to compile Node.js to binary release (with native modules)?). Don't mind me bro I have ADHD.

Edition 2022

Package Managers

• I've started using yarn@3 even if it's pain in my ass because nobody really supports it and most people uses yarn@1/2 which crashes on yarn.lock, so yeah. But it's slowly rising popularity so we're on good road in my opinion.
• pnpm also seem to rise popularity, especially within Pure ESM packages.

Build Tools

Let's resume all of the build tools we know and have for Node.js (because front-end have literally millions of them and none working properly) - ncc, tsc/typescript, esbuild, webpack?, swc.

• tsup
• esbuild
• swc
• ncc
• pkg

Runtime

• node
• deno
• bun

Strongly Typed JavaScript

• Still typescript.

typescript@next

I'm an early-bidder kind of guy, and I would like to say on freshest version of Typescript in this repository. TypeScript code is compiled to ES2015 JavaScript code as defined in tsconfig.json and this version is also used as stock by @vercel/ncc.

• Usage of @vercel/ncc to compile transpiled JavaScript (by tsc) into bundled JavaScript.
• Usage of @vercel/pkg to compile JavaScript (transpiled by tsc) into single executable file

Usage

$ yarn
$ yarn build:tsc # dist/tsc
$ yarn build:ncc # dist/ncc
$ yarn build:pkg # dist/pkg (depends on dist/tsc)

Native Packages

There was some mess with native packages but I think with flow of time I'll find a good way of including them into build.

Supported	Untested	Unsupported
bcrypt	sqlite aws-sdk	realm