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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