node-pre-gyp support

[audreyt]

@springmeyer mentioned it's a viable option now, over at sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs#117 (comment) — URLs to relevant documentations & pullreqs welcome!

[springmeyer]

started porting in mapbox/node-webworker-threads@audreyt:master...master

[audreyt]

🌈 👍

[springmeyer]

Okay, first pass of the port is done:

• minor modifications to package.json, adding index.js
• build runs and works on travis: https://travis-ci.org/mapbox/node-webworker-threads
• build runs and works on appveyor: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Mapbox/node-webworker-threads/build/1.0.5

Next steps:

• What platforms do you want to support with binaries? Linux, Windows, and OS X?
• Do you want to host the binaries on S3 or do you wish to provide an alternative host?

[springmeyer]

I'll add:

• I recommend S3 hosting, details at https://github.com/mapbox/node-pre-gyp#host and https://github.com/mapbox/node-pre-gyp#s3-hosting
• docs describing what I've started setting up for travis and appveyor are at https://github.com/mapbox/node-pre-gyp#travis-automation and https://github.com/mapbox/node-pre-gyp#appveyor-automation

[audreyt]

@springmeyer How large are the Linux, Windows and OS X binaries? If they are reasonably small (<1MB each) I'd like to host them in audreyt.github.io/node-webworker-threads/ — that is, in the gh-pages branch of this repo — if that sounds reasonable to you.

BTW you're a committer now! Please merge when you feel it's ready.

[springmeyer]

@audreyt - the OS X binary is 93 KB so hosting them in the gh-pages branch seems reasonable. Because the node-pre-gyp publish command only supports s3 hosts then publishing to the gh-pages branch will need some alternative automation.

[audreyt]

OK! Good to know, looking forward to the commits 👍

[thorlarholm]

This would be a very welcome addition.

How ready is this and what steps remain before webworker-threads has node-pre-gyp support?

[springmeyer]

then publishing to the gh-pages branch will need some alternative automation.

@thorlarholm ^^ this is the next bit that needs work. Because @audreyt wishes to host on github rather than s3 someone needs to write a bit of code to auto-publish binaries. This should not be hard - but would take a bit of time. I sketched out some basics over at mapbox/node-pre-gyp#134 (comment) if you are interested in tackling this.

[thorlarholm]

Thanks @springmeyer I forked your changes and started work on publishing to gh-pages.

[springmeyer]

Great @thorlarholm

[audreyt]

@thorlarholm awesome, much kudos! 🌈

[thorlarholm]

Don't congratulate me too much, I had to ditch my fork due to work obligations.

This is still an open issue.

[Drakulix]

What about using this instead to publish the prebuild modules to Githubs Releases?
https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-pre-gyp-github