The lightest possible nodejs build

Question

I'm trying to run a small nodejs project on a old router (A part of a challenge) but have ran into problems, as it only has about 6MB of usable memory. First off I ran the build through upx that took the build down to around 6mb. After that I tried using older builds iojs and v1.01. They worked fine except that they lacked features required to run the ws module (the other part of the challenge). After that I ran ./configure with the arguments of --without-dtrace --without-npm --without-etw --without-perfctr --with-icu-source=none but they still refused to bring down the build size. Is there a way to build nodejs in such a way that it runs the ws module and has an output that's under 6MB

Answer 1

Due to memory issue I think this will not work in your case. Try this one espruino . Here You can read more detally

Answer 2

You should try CivetWeb: https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb It include Websocket and support javascript via Duktape.