Package tsx library into executable

Question

I want to package the typescript-runner tsx into an executable so that it is not dependent on nodejs or npm to be ran. How is this possible? I wanted to use vercel/pkg but it seems to have problems with the esm syntax.

Answer 1

you could use nexe

nexe server.js -r "public/**/*.html"

For more CLI options see: nexe --help

Motivation and Features

• Self contained applications
• Ability to run multiple applications with different node.js runtimes.
• Distribute binaries without needing node / npm.
• Idempotent builds
• Start and deploy faster.
• Lockdown specific application versions, and easily rollback.
• Flexible build pipeline
• Cross platform builds

Or if you are familiar with docker, you could create a container of your tsx-runner project along with other containers, you could manage the multi container system with docker-compose