Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 12.4

Chapter 9. General Libraries

Node.js-22.18.0

Introduction to Node.js

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.4 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): https://nodejs.org/dist/v22.18.0/node-v22.18.0.tar.xz

  • Download MD5 sum: c465f337ce708750125ee9f3b907cbf1

  • Download size: 47 MB

  • Estimated disk space required: 1.3 GB (add 46 MB for tests)

  • Estimated build time: 11 SBU (add 2.5 SBU for tests: both using parallelism=8 and 8 CPUs online, parts of the tests will use all online CPUs)

Node.js Dependencies

Required

Which-2.23

Recommended

Brotli-1.1.0, c-ares-1.34.5, ICU-77.1, libuv-1.51.0, and nghttp2-1.66.0

Optional

http-parser and npm (an internal copy of npm will be installed if not present)

[Note]

Note

An Internet connection is needed for some tests of this package. The system certificate store may need to be set up with make-ca-1.16.1 before testing this package.

Installation of Node.js

Build Node.js by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr          \
            --shared-brotli        \
            --shared-cares         \
            --shared-libuv         \
            --shared-openssl       \
            --shared-nghttp2       \
            --shared-zlib          \
            --with-intl=system-icu &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test-only. Out of over 4400 tests, 3 in the 'parallel' test suite are known to fail.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
ln -sf node /usr/share/doc/node-22.18.0

Command Explanations

--with-intl=system-icu: use the system version of icu. Other values are full-icu (to build a local, full icu library) and small-icu (to build a local, minimal icu library).

--shared-{brotli,cares,libuv,nghttp2,openssl,zlib}: use the system installed libraries instead of local copies.

--without-npm: do not build npm (use if you'd like to build a separate npm later).

--shared-http-parser: use the system installed library instead of a local copy.

Contents

Installed Programs: corepack, node, npm, and npx
Installed Library: None
Installed Directories: /usr/include/node, /usr/lib/node_modules/{corepack,npm}, /usr/share/doc/{node,node-22.18.0}, and /usr/share/systemtap/tapset

Short Descriptions

corepack

is an experimental tool to help with managing versions of package managers.

node

is the server-side JavaScript runtime

npm

is the Node.js package manager

npx

is short for npm exec, which allows running commands from NPM packages

/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/

is the installation root for Node.js executables and libraries