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Pkg Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to pkg
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ncc
Compile a Node.js project into a single file. Supports TypeScript, binary addons, dynamic requires.
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Appwrite
Appwrite - The Open Source Firebase alternative introduces iOS support . Appwrite is an open source backend server that helps you build native iOS applications much faster with realtime APIs for authentication, databases, files storage, cloud functions and much more!
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webpack
A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
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InfluxDB
Access the most powerful time series database as a service. Ingest, store, & analyze all types of time series data in a fully-managed, purpose-built database. Keep data forever with low-cost storage and superior data compression.
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Nodemon.io
Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development
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blessed-contrib
Build terminal dashboards using ascii/ansi art and javascript
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Sonar
Write Clean JavaScript Code. Always.. Sonar helps you commit clean code every time. With over 300 unique rules to find JavaScript bugs, code smells & vulnerabilities, Sonar finds the issues while you focus on the work.
pkg reviews and mentions
- How do I export/distribute a Node.js command line application?
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Open source StreamDeck alternative
Use PKG to create a single executable
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From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a Better Developer Experience
You don't even need that: https://github.com/vercel/pkg.
I think there are equivalents in the Python ecosystem.
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Exploring competitive features in Node.js v18 and v19
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.
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Docker's technical preview of WASM with Rust
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.
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Tauri + NodeJS: Alternative to Electron
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.
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nodeMyAdmin: The alternative to phpMyAdmin written with node.JS
What if you packaged the whole thing into one executable using pkg?
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How to run code without node?
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.
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A note from our sponsor - Appwrite
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vercel/pkg is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.