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binary-downloader
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This module downloads remote binaries according to requirements for a given version of Node.js.
It also simplifies requiring these modules.
It aims at Node.js v4 compatibility (and that's why it uses older versions of
the tar
and semver
modules).
The goal of this module is to provide a simple and lightweight way of handling pre-built native modules when no local build is possible.
npm install -S binary-downloader
This module uses the same binary
field in package.json
as node-pre-gyp
.
However, it only supports the following tags:
platform
libc
arch
node_napi_label
For other tags, feel free to open an issue or a PR!
Also, to get the require
string to the downloaded binary, you will have to do
the following:
const PackageJSON = require('./package.json');
const binding_path = Binary.getPath(PackageJSON.binary);
const Binding = require(binding_path);
(You are, of courses, free to get the binary
part of the package.json
by any
other way that works for you!);
This module supports https proxy. If an URL is present in the https_proxy
, the
HTTPS_PROXY
or the npm_config_proxy
environment variable, the download
of the binary will be done through this URL using the https-proxy-agent
module.
Alternatively, using http_proxy
or HTTPS_PROXY
environment variables will
use the http-proxy-agent
module.
The great node-pre-gyp module can handle the lifecycle of a native module. It can help publishing it. It allows falling back on building the module locally if download failed and many more.
The current module just tries its best to download a native module and make it
available to use. Nothing more, nothing less. It is therefore way lighter and
probably constitutes a good alternative to node-pre-gyp
if you want to ship
a commercial (or at least) pre-vuilt version of a module. At least, it serves
my needs here.
FAQs
Binary downloader - node-pre-gyp without node-gyp step
The npm package binary-downloader receives a total of 2,341 weekly downloads. As such, binary-downloader popularity was classified as popular.
We found that binary-downloader demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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