Graaljs: Missing Nodejs on Windows?

[frieck]

Just recently downloaded GraalVM and was looking forward to test a NodeJS app on it.
I can't find any Node or NPM executable inside /bin folder.

I am currently on Windows.
Am I missing something?

Thanks,

[wirthi]

Hi @frieck

thanks for your question.

We are working on that already. Internally, we can build and test Node.js on Windows already, but it requires a few more modifications to our infrastructure until we can ship that. I hope we can ship it in the first or second 20.* release early next year.

Best,
Christian

[frieck]

Thanks for your answer @wirthi

Is there a place where I can check the progress of this feature?

[frieck]

Hi @wirthi,

NodeJS is still not shipped in release 20.
Any news in the progress of shipping NodeJS for Windows releases?

[shoaniki]

"JavaScript engine and Node.js are now included in the GraalVM Windows distribution builds", according to https://www.graalvm.org/docs/release-notes/20_0 ... could you please arrange for the documentation and distribution packages to agree on this point? 🙂

[wirthi]

"JavaScript engine and Node.js are now included in the GraalVM Windows distribution builds", according to https://www.graalvm.org/docs/release-notes/20_0 ... could you please arrange for the documentation and distribution packages to agree on this point? 🙂

Hi, you are right, the feature actually missed the GraalVM 20.0.0 deadline. We are fixing the release notes, sorry for the confusion (we had hoped we can still bring it in, but it was too risky to actually push it last minute).

The good news is: the feature has been merged to the GraalVM builds in the meantime: https://github.com/oracle/graal/commit/fb0a10e439e61a467742af0c9bfba79122d15970 The next release (20.1.0) will include GraalVM-Node.js on Windows for sure!

Best,
Christian

[wirthi]

GraalVM 20.1 has been released and includes node and npm also on Windows now. https://www.graalvm.org/downloads/
Please try it out, we are happy to receive feedback, there might still be some rough edges (please open separate tickets for that).

Thanks,
Christian