Node.js-10.16.3

#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 9.0

### Chapter 9. General Libraries

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# Node.js-10.16.3

## Introduction to Node.js

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.0 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.16.3/node-v10.16.3.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: b41275a018e670947c1950b12f050a2f

- Download size: 21 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 433 MB (add 33 MB for tests)

- Estimated build time: 5.3 SBU (using parallelism=4; add 1.3 SBU for tests)

### Note

This tarball was created using a BSD version of tar and extracting it with a linux™ version will produce harmless warnings about unknown extended header keywords.

### Node.js Dependencies

#### Required

Python-2.7.16 and Which-2.21

#### Recommended

c-ares-1.15.0, ICU-64.2, libuv-1.31.0, and nghttp2-1.39.2

#### Optional

http-parser, npm (an internal copy of npm will be installed if not present)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/nodejs

## Installation of Node.js

Build Node.js by running the following commands:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr                  \
                --shared-cares                 \
                --shared-libuv                 \
                --shared-nghttp2               \
                --shared-openssl               \
                --shared-zlib                  \
                --with-intl=system-icu         &&
    make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install &&
    ln -sf node /usr/share/doc/node-10.16.3

## Command Explanations

`--with-intl=system-icu`: use the system version of icu. Other values are `full-icu` (to build a local, full icu library) and `small-icu` (to to build a local, minimal icu library).

`--shared-{cares,libuv,nghttp2,openssl,zlib}`: use the system installed libraries instead of local copies.

`--without-npm`: do not build npm (use if you'd like to build a separate npm later).

`--shared-http-parser`: use the system installed library instead of a local copy.

## Contents

Installed Programs: node, npm, and npx
Installed Library: None
Installed Directories: /usr/include/node, /usr/lib/node_modules/npm, and /usr/share/systemtap/tapset

### Short Descriptions

node | is the server-side JavaScript runtime.
npm | is the Node.js package manager.
`/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/` | is the installation root for Node.js executables and libraries.

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