add a binary to build artifacts

[shanejonas]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
i’d like binary build for generator-client so that i can brew or apt-get or maybe even chocolatey install the generator client as an alternative to nodejs installed.

[shanejonas]

I tried a couple out and this was the one that worked the best for me:

https://github.com/nexe/nexe

produced a 33mb binary for a simple hello world.

Just a note
Don't think we really care about size here, since it's going to have to include a node.js binary for each platform.

In a language like rust though, it would be down to a couple hundred bytes probably as a comparison.

maybe one day we will have something that can produce typescript -> binary, or as typescript -> wasm gets more popular, the tooling will emerge.

[devonwesley]

Working on this:

Current progress:

• The binary, using the nexe tool spits out to be 161m
• The schema-utils-js seem to be the package making the build a bit bigger, particularly the packages called "quicktype" and "json-schema".

Solution:

• just going to keep looking into the packages, but it might not get better.
• Theres flags you can pass to nexe that will build nodejs with certain packages, but I don't think this is going to help. Alot of the packages use each other.

Also when running --production on the schema-utils-jss node_modules folder its 148M by itself.

[shanejonas]

I tested with generator-client on my machine with nexe installed globally and it ended up at 38M

maybe it's the way nexe is included in the project? not sure

[devonwesley]

Yeah, Did the build @shanejonas way, and it was alot smaller.

#!/usr/bin/env node

const { compile } = require('nexe');
const getVersion = require('./get-version');

const releasePath = './build/macos';
const artifactName = `openrpc-${getVersion}`;

compile({ 
  input: './bin/cli.js',
  output: `${releasePath}/${artifactName}`,
  name: artifactName,
})
.then(() => console.log(`Ready! ${artifactName}`));

This is the code I currently have inside of a script file with nexe installed as a dev dependency.

Maybe thats bloating it for some reason.

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