Hi Johannes, Johannes Kastl writes:

Hi all,

I tried the wiki and some search-foo but ended up with deprecated things on how to build a NPM package (or something that looks like it).

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_nodejs

In my case I wanted to try building kui from https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kui, which to me looks like NPM-Foo:

Quoting the README:

...

I don't trust the prebuilts

We hear you. Choose your platform (e.g. mac:amd64), execute the following, then look in ./dist/electron.

git clone git@github.com:kubernetes-sigs/kui.git && cd kui && npm ci && \ npm run build:electron:mac:amd64

Might not be the best package to get going with NPM, as it seems rather complex.

Afaik the current recommended approach is to avoid packaging node.js applications ;-) Now for useful answers: a year ago I asked the same question and was pointed towards obs-service-node_modules[1], which should help you with bundling all the required dependencies. Unfortunately I'm afraid that's all I can help you with. Also, please be very careful with Electron: it's a licensing minefield due to the inclusion of ffmpeg and thus various video encoders/decoders. Iirc Tomáš Chvátal told me a few years ago how much of a pain in the rear it was to properly build Chromium offline (which is effectively Electron) and I'd rate that as a 1/10, would not recommend doing unless absolutely necessary. Hope this helps, Dan Footnotes: [1] https://github.com/openSUSE/obs-service-node_modules -- Dan Čermák Software Engineer Development tools SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Managing Director/Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev