pack the nodejs and javascript code to one execute file

Question

I hope to pack the nodejs(includes its installed module via npm) and javascript code to one execute file for different plateform(windows, osx, linux).

Is it possible or any solution?

Your comment welcome

Answer 1

From my understanding, you can't really create an executable file for multiplatforms. Each platform has it's own packaging format to make it binary executable. What you can do is to create a x.tar.gz file and expand it to your target platform. I myself haven't done it but theoretically it's possible. Here is an example (assuming you're using GNU tar for all your platforms):

To pack it, do:

 tar cvzf nodeproject.tar.gz nodeproject 

To expand, do

tar xvzf nodeproject.tar.gz