native-messaging-quickjs VS download-node-nightly-executable

QuickJS https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-quickjs (after strip the executable is less than 1MB; the last time I checked node executable is well over 80MB) to run ImageMagick and pipe the result to local file system, remote end-point, or to the browser as a stream.

Dynamically set arbitrary Web pages as "externally_connectable" and forward messages from the Web page to Native Messaging host the forward messages from Native Messagin host back to arbitrary Web page https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-quickjs/tree/dynamic-externally-connectable

I can ship qjs in a browser extension with no undue constraint on storage, and run qjs from the browser from any Web site https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-quickjs/tree/dynamic-externally-connectable. That is a different story for node and deno, when we really analyze the built-ins we use, do not amount to all of the built-ins, however, there is no way that I am aware of to reduce the size of V8 engine; even d8 is what, 20MB, and not simple to extend to actually use stdin, stdout.

Working JavaScript (QuickJS) version: https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-quickjs/blob/main/nm_qjs.js

A QuickJS Native Messaging host that echoes input https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaaging-quickjs from client. Have fun.

npm never has to get written to or installed on your machine. download-node-nightly-executable.

WHat do you mean by "contribute"? I download only the node executable using download-node-nightly-executable to run native-messaging-nodejs, servers, or whatever else I decide to experiement on - without downloading any packages.

If you only need the node executable without npm, node_modules and the rest of the folders and files shipped in Node.js download archive you can use this https://github.com/guest271314/download-node-nightly-executable.

I use DecompressionStream() to decompress the Node.js nightly release before extracting only the node executable from the tar archive https://github.com/guest271314/download-node-nightly-executable/blob/main/index.html.

Yes. I create a file called node, touch node, set the file to executable chmod u+x node, then fetch the Node.js nightly release using this https://github.com/guest271314/download-node-nightly-executable, get rid of everything except the node executable, then run that node executable from the directory I download the file to. Then afterwards truncate the node execute to a file with 0 size, as it began as with

Node.js does not publish a release containing only the node executable. That is why I wrote this https://github.com/guest271314/download-node-nightly-executable to fetch the Node.js nightly download, extract only the node executable, and get rid of everything else in the download that never reaches my file system.

If you do not already have the node executable https://github.com/guest271314/download-node-nightly-executable.

Note: You can use node executable without using npm or npx at all download-node-nightly-executable. Create package.json including {"type":"module"} then you can import local .js files, e.g. https://github.com/guest271314/jsdom-extension/blob/main/background.js

As to that point, FWIW, it is easier to download the Deno executable than the Node.js executable, because Deno only includes the executable i the download - Node.js include npm, npx, et al. That is why I wrote https://github.com/guest271314/download-node-nightly-executable to extract only the node executable for Node.js nightly download.

FWIW I wrote this https://github.com/guest271314/download-node-nightly-executable to fetch the node nightly executable from the release folder than contains npm because I have no use for npm nor packages. I just use node executable as a Native Messaging host, which does not require any dependencies, just the javaScript runtime, where I can call process.spawn() and thus execute any local JavaScript file or other application written in any programming language.