Alternatives for building in air-gapped (offline) environment.

[bayu01]

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The Issue: the NPM pkg utility is no longer maintained. I struggled finding ways to "package" inside an offline (air-gapped) environment. By default pkg reaches out to the internet (npm registry). It would be a very tedious process bringing binaries for PKG_CACHE_PATH to build offline.

The Workaround: Resort to a shell script that is able to work offline on an nginx-alpine that performs sed -i "s|\"import_meta_env_placeholder\"|\"$json_object\"|g" ./index.html instead.

Suggested Feature: Is it possible to use Node SEA (Node 21+) to build the executable in an offline environment instead?

[soc221b]

You can use Node SEA to build the executable, but be aware that it is still experimental.

[mckelveygreg]

I wasn't able to figure out the best way to use Node SEA, but it seems like @yao-pkg/pkg is being maintained, so i moved to that 🤷