PACKAGE NODE APP FOR MAC 2016 INSTALL
PACKAGE NODE APP FOR MAC 2016 WINDOWS

Check bindings.gyp for dependency details and Path hints.

Take notes on all dependencies you install, updates to Path and environment variables you set up.

Make it work locally on each platform first (VM or HW).

Some recommendations to make this process smoother: It is almost always better to do this in a local machine first and take notes, then push to the CI tools for the final build, compile, test, package and publish steps. Nobody should have to wait 30 minutes just see your build fail in Travis or AppVeyor! Relying entirely on CI tools to accomplish this can make it painfully slow to test and make it work. This is probably the most crucial part, since you need to test compilation and packaging in all 3 platforms.

Add a Make task to make release and publish easier.

Set up CI tools to automatically autogenerate the binary packages on new releases.

Make sure you can publish the binary package.

Set up a publishing mechanism (node-pre-gyp recommends AS3).

Make sure you can compile and package your binary dependencies.

Add node-pre-gyp hooks and dependencies to your module.This are the steps we follow to be able to auto-generate binary packages, so they can be installed and used by anyone. Setup and Auto-Generate the Binary Packages

PACKAGE NODE APP FOR MAC 2016 INSTALL

This post details everything that we do to setup these builds, so that other maintainers can make life easier for users that want to install one of these modules.

PACKAGE NODE APP FOR MAC 2016 WINDOWS

Using node-pre-gyp with Continuous Integration (CI) tools like TravisCI (build for Linux and OSX) and AppVeyor (build for Windows platforms) allow us to automatically generate, package, publish and have binary packages available each time a new version of the module is released. We accomplish this using node-pre-gyp, which provides a very solid process to set up packaging and publishing of precompiledīinaries. This is why we have taken it upon ourselves to help provide precomplied binaries for all major platforms, for the modules that we use in Cylon that have native dependencies. It is especially difficult when doing a workshop or hackathon, when many attendees do not have all the dependencies required to compile these native extensions. We have come across this issue quite often, since several Cylon modules also have dependencies for these same npm modules. This requires that the user of the modules have a development environment for compiling native code, and that is also is up to date, which is not always the case. Some of those modules also require platform specific native dependencies and libraries for OSX, Linux, or Windows. Using some of the coolest npm modules for developing JavaScript robotics like node-serialport, node-opencv and gamepad often require compiling native extensions. It is always a high priority here at The Hybrid Group to make Cylon.js, and all of the various Node.js modules that it depends on, easier to install and use.

Package node app for mac 2016