Stand-alone executable using pkg

pkg-basics.md

To create an stand-alone executable from a NodeJS project the process is as follows:

1. Install pkg using npm i -g pkg

2. If the project does not have dynamic requires use pkg entryPoint.js

3. If the project has dynamic imports add the following code to your package.json

 "pkg": {
  "scripts": "someDirectory/*.js"
}

4. Then execute pkg package.json

5. Chmod the executables using chmod +x

On linux the binary can be added to bin and then made globally executable using chmod a+rx.