Node.js-18.17.1

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 12.0 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.17.1/node-v18.17.1.tar.xz

  • Download MD5 sum: cfadecca2649bb74daba89d60fbd02e5

  • Download size: 39 MB

  • Estimated disk space required: 992 MB (add 25 MB for tests)

  • Estimated build time: 13 SBU (add 3.3 SBU for tests: both using parallelism=8 and 8 CPUs online, parts of the tests will use all online CPUs)

Node.js Dependencies

Required

Which-2.21

Recommended

Optional

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

Installation of Node.js

Build Node.js by running the following commands:

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

To test the results, issue: make test-only. Several tests are known to fail due to behavior differences between OpenSSL-3.0 and OpenSSL-3.1.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
ln -sf node /usr/share/doc/node-18.17.1

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 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: corepack, node, npm, and npx
Installed Library: None
Installed Directories: /usr/include/node, /usr/lib/node_modules/{corepack,npm}, /usr/share/doc/{node,node-18.17.1}, and /usr/share/systemtap/tapset

Short Descriptions

corepack

is an experimental tool to help with managing versions of package managers.

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