benjhess/nodec repository overview

⁠node packer - docker build environment

Creates a docker image, that contains a build environment for packing node.js applications into a single executable. Contains precompiled node sources. This way the build process is a lot faster!

⁠How to

If you forked this, rename property "user" in package.json to your docker hub username.

⁠Build the image

npm run build

⁠Run test container from image

npm run container

⁠Push the image to docker hub

npm run push

⁠Delete the image

npm run delete

⁠Example: packing node app into binary

This example creates a stand alone binary including node and the app sources.

npm run container

mkdir example
echo "console.log('hello world');" >  example/hello-world.js

# creates binary "hello-world" from "example/hello-world.js"
nodec -r example/ --skip-npm-install -o hello-world example/hello-world.js

# shrinks binary (36M > 12M)
upx hello-world