source: general/genlib/nodejs.xml@ 2554b06

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY nodejs-download-http "https://nodejs.org/dist/v&nodejs-version;/node-v&nodejs-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY nodejs-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY nodejs-md5sum        "e47313b64127759e53010a3d04efbb67">
  <!ENTITY nodejs-size          "38 MB">
  <!ENTITY nodejs-buildsize     "901 MB (add 29 MB for tests)">
  <!ENTITY nodejs-time          "14 SBU (add 3.4 SBU for tests: both using parallelism=4 and 4 CPUs online, parts of the tests will use all online CPUs)">
]>

<sect1 id="nodejs" xreflabel="nodejs-&nodejs-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="nodejs.html"?>


  <title>Node.js-&nodejs-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="nodejs">
    <primary sortas="a-nodejs">nodejs</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Node.js</title>

    <para>
      <application>Node.js</application> is a
      <application>JavaScript</application> runtime built on
      <application>Chrome's</application> V8 JavaScript engine.
    </para>

    &lfs113_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&nodejs-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&nodejs-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &nodejs-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &nodejs-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &nodejs-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &nodejs-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

<!--
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/node-v&nodejs-version;-icu_69-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
-->

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Node.js Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="which"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="c-ares"/>,
      <xref linkend="icu"/>,
      <xref linkend="libuv"/>, and
      <xref linkend="nghttp2"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <ulink url="https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser">http-parser</ulink> and
      <ulink url="https://www.npmjs.com/">npm</ulink> (an internal copy of
      <command>npm</command> will be installed if not present)
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/nodejs"/>
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Node.js</title>

<!--
    <para>
      First, apply a patch to fix building Node.js against ICU-69.1:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../node-v&nodejs-version;-icu_69-1.patch</userinput></screen>
-->
<!-- Does not appear to be needed for version 18.13.0
    <para>
      The <command>configure</command> script for this version of Node.js is
      not aware of Python-3.11. If you have installed <xref linkend="python3"/>,
      apply the following change:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -e '/=.*exec/a command -v python3.11 >/dev/null &amp;&amp; exec python3.11 "$0" "$@"' \
    -e s'/((/((3, 11), (/'  \
    -i configure</userinput></screen>
-->
    <para>
      Build <application>Node.js</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr          \
            --shared-cares         \
            --shared-libuv         \
            --shared-openssl       \
            --shared-nghttp2       \
            --shared-zlib          \
            --with-intl=system-icu &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make test-only</command>.
      Two tests (of 3800 tests), test-net-socket-connect-without-cb and i
      test-tcp-wrap-listen, are known to fail.
<!--
Failed tests:
out/Release/node /tmp/node-v18.14.1/test/parallel/test-cluster-bind-privileged-port.js
-->
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
ln -sf node /usr/share/doc/node-&nodejs-version;</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <parameter>--with-intl=system-icu</parameter>: use the system version
      of <application>icu</application>. Other values are
      <option>full-icu</option> (to build a local, full
      <application>icu</application> library) and <option>small-icu</option>
      (to build a local, minimal <application>icu</application> library).
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--shared-{cares,libuv,nghttp2,openssl,zlib}</parameter>:
      use the system installed libraries instead of local copies.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--without-npm</option>: do not build
      <application>npm</application> (use if you'd like to build a separate
      <application>npm</application> later).
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--shared-http-parser</option>: use the system
      installed library instead of a local copy.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          corepack, node, npm, and npx
        </seg>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/node,
          /usr/lib/node_modules/{corepack,npm},
          /usr/share/doc/{node,node-&nodejs-version;}, and
          /usr/share/systemtap/tapset
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="corepack">
        <term><command>corepack</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is an experimental tool to help with managing versions of package
            managers.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="nodejs corepack">
            <primary sortas="b-corepack">corepack</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="node">
        <term><command>node</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the server-side JavaScript runtime
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="nodejs node">
            <primary sortas="b-node">node</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="npm">
        <term><command>npm</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the <application>Node.js</application> package manager
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="nodejs npm">
            <primary sortas="b-npm">npm</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/</filename>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the installation root for Node.js executables and libraries
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>