Is there a way to compile node js source files

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Is there a way to compile a node js application

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There was an answer here  Secure distribution of NodeJS applications  Raynos said  V8 allows you to pre-compile JavaScript

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You can use the Closure compiler to compile your javascript    You can also use CoffeeScript to compile your coffeescript to javascript    What do you want to achieve with compiling   The task of compiling arbitrary non-blocking JavaScript down to say  C sounds very daunting   There really isn t that much speed to be gained by compiling to C or ASM  If you want speed gain offload computation to a C program through a sub process

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Now this may include more than you need  and may not even work for command line applications in a non-graphical environment  I don t know   but there is nw js  It s Blink  i e  Chromium Webkit    io js  i e  Node js    You can use node-webkit-builder to build native executable binaries for Linux  OS X and Windows   If you want a GUI  that s a huge plus  You can build one with web technologies  If you don t  specify  node-main  in the package json  and probably  window     show   false  although maybe it works to just have a node-main and not a main   I haven t tried to use it in exactly this way  just throwing it out there as a possibility  I can say it s certainly not an ideal solution for non-graphical Node js applications

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EncloseJS   You get a fully functional binary without sources   Native modules also supported   must be placed in the same folder   JavaScript code is transformed into native code at compile-time using V8 internal compiler  Hence  your sources are not required to execute the binary  and they are not packaged   Perfectly optimized native code can be generated only at run-time based on the client s machine  Without that info EncloseJS can generate only  unoptimized  code  It runs about 2x slower than NodeJS   Also  node js runtime code is put inside the executable  along with your code  to support node API for your application at run-time   Use cases    Make a commercial version of your application without sources  Make a demo evaluation trial version of your app without sources  Make some kind of self-extracting archive or installer  Make a closed source GUI application using node-thrust  No need to install node and npm to deploy the compiled application  No need to download hundreds of files via npm install to deploy your application  Deploy it as a single independent file  Put your assets inside the executable to make it even more portable  Test your app against new node version without installing it

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Node js runs on top of the V8 Javascript engine  which itself optimizes performance by compiling javascript code into native code    so no reason really for compiling then  is there    https   developers google com v8 design mach code

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javascript does not not have a compiler like for example Java C You can compare it more to languages like PHP for example   If you want to write compiled code you should read the section about addons and learn C  Although this is rather complex and I don t think you need to do this but instead just write javascript

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I maybe very late but you can use  nexe  module that compile nodejs   your script in one executable  https   github com crcn nexe

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