pkg VS ncc

You don't even need that: https://github.com/vercel/pkg.

I think there are equivalents in the Python ecosystem.

Another exciting feature is the ability to build a single-executable Node.js binary. Before Node.js v18, the only way to build a Node.js binary was to use a third-party package, like pkg.

As a comparison I am using https://github.com/vercel/pkg to package my Node.js app into an exe file. Vercel-pkg allows me to build different images for different platforms like Windows, Linux, Mac. It would be nice if it could produce a single .exe that worked on all platforms. But I guess such an exe would have to be bigger. It is not too cumbersome to produce one exe per platform that my users need.

To run NodeJS as a sidecar we need to pack it into binary. Taurine is bundling your server code and preparing it for packing into a single binary. Using Vercel’s pkg CLI tool we can compile it into a single executable binary. That binary is running with the Tauri application.

What if you packaged the whole thing into one executable using pkg?

In addition to the other responses, there are node packages like pkg and nexe that you can use to package the node executable and your code into a single executable.

Not really, at last check 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.

You can even pack your terminal application in a single binary that does not require separate NodeJS installed via pkg.

You could use ncc to compile a binary:

https://github.com/vercel/ncc

This appears to be caused by lazy loading of image layer data, particularly during container initialization, and latency introduced by the read operations. In general, you want to access as few files and as little data as possible during the initialization of your functions. For example, we've seen improvement when using ncc to bundle Node.js applications.

What we do however, is bundle all these dependencies, and our own code into a single JS file using the nifty ncc tool (thanks Vercel!)

Vercel's ncc compiler

The most unclear and confusing part is packing the code using ncc. The necessity of this step is caused by GitHub’s approach to running your Action.

This may be slightly tangential but I recently discovered ncc[1] from vercel which can take a single node project and compile it and all dependencies to a single file.

As an added benefit it also collapses all contained dependencies license files into a single licenses.txt file too!

- [1] https://github.com/vercel/ncc

The current process of building a package locally is by running through a gulp task, using ttypescript to compile the TS and @vercel/ncc to build the binary:

- "introduce bugs": I dont' think so, my product is running like this, bundling every commit but I didn't see any problem. For bigger app: vercel using this way to delivery they's serverless application with https://github.com/vercel/ncc.

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