Another interesting point, is how you handle the case when different applications needs to be installed in the same machine/server and these depends on different version of node.
That's why on my msi example I bundle the node.exe executable directly on the package. I think nexe can make this easier. 2014/1/16 José F. Romaniello <jfromanie...@gmail.com> > I don't know nexe, but another aproach is to make an installable for every > platform you will want to support. > > I did one for windows (using msi) for one of our artifacts and I extracted > a template here: > > https://github.com/auth0/nodejs-msi > > I've read a series of blog posts from AJ ONeal about packaging node.js > applications: > > http://blog.coolaj86.com/articles/how-to-create-an-osx-pkg-installer.html > http://blog.coolaj86.com/articles/how-to-create-a-debian-installer.html > http://blog.coolaj86.com/articles/how-to-create-an-innosetup-installer.html > > I found this project interesting to create RPM (CentOS/ RedHat) from > node.js modules: > > https://github.com/sfreire/njs2rpm > > These package can include the node binary and license which is usually > small, or a dependency to the nodejs package deb/rpm/whatever if there is > one for the platform. > > I like the approach of using the most native thing for the operative > system, so for instance, although "setup.exe" in windows are very common > "msi" is more standard. > > I hope this help you, > > regards > > > 2014/1/16 Piyush Ranjan <piyush...@gmail.com> > >> Thanks for the reply. I did try nexe and going ahead with it! >> >> Piyush >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Alex Kocharin <a...@kocharin.ru> wrote: >> >>> >>> You might find this - https://github.com/crcn/nexe - interesting. >>> >>> -- >>> // alex >>> >>> >>> 15.01.2014, 23:06, "Piyush Ranjan" <piyush...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Hello >>> I am in process of writing a nodejs application that would be accessible >>> to users via npm install. For users, who do not have node installed, I >>> would like to ship a standalone app. Is there a way to do with nodejs ? I >>> do not have a UI in this application i.e. it is a CLI. I have seen >>> node-webkit and I have played with http://appjs.com/. >>> >>> I would like to summarize what I want >>> 1. node.js CLI app. All javascript, as much as possible. >>> 2. Standalone >>> 3. Should work on mac osx, windows and linux >>> 4. 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