CODEWITHSUNDEEP
node.js
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Reputation: 315

How to zip a nodejs server app?

I have to create a zip file of my whole nodejs server app. I should be able to unzip it and run it, without installing dependencies and apps. It should not be a binary file. The dependencies should be flattened.

How to do this thing ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4656

Answers (3)

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Reputation: 315

Thank you, all of you for your help. I got the solution for my question. I am using npm pack to pack the nodejs app. To pack nodejs app with some dependencies like morgan, express we need to use npm bundle it helps to include the other module required for node js app. With this, we don't need to perform npm install. We just have to install bundle and then include bundleDependencies field including the name of required module in package.json. And then perform then run the command npm pack. It will create a tar file just copy this file in other folder and uncompress it and run the server starting file. The place where you are going to run the nodejs file, there nodejs app should be installed

Upvotes: 1

Trott
Trott

Reputation: 70183

Generally, a Node.js app has its dependencies installed in the node_modules directory in the project root.

So, after running npm install (or npm install --production), you should be able to zip up the project directory and that should be all you need.

If any of your dependencies in node_modules are native addons, then you will not be able to install them on a different architecture or OS. If there are native addons, you will also want to make sure your target machine has the same version of node installed as the machine where you created the zip file. (It's a good idea anyway, if you can, to make sure the node version on the target machine is the same as the source machine.)

One obvious requirement of the target host if you do as I describe above is that node is already installed there. Not sure if that's OK for your use case or not, but sounds like it probably is?

Upvotes: 1

Kanad Godse
Kanad Godse

Reputation: 299

I think you might be looking for this: https://github.com/nexe/nexe

Nexe is a command-line utility that compiles your Node.js application into a single executable file.

Upvotes: 0

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