There are things like nexe[1] and pkg[2] but the resulting executables end up pretty bloated (30+ MBs for a simple hello world, cause they all end up bundling N

There are things like nexe[1] and pkg[2] but the resulting executables end up pretty bloated (30+ MBs for a simple hello world, cause they all end up bundling Node in some way with every executable). nexe doesn't support native Node modules either, IIRC. [1] https://github.com/nexe/nexe https://github.com/nexe/nexe [2] https://github.com/zeit/pkg https://github.com/zeit/pkg