Just to chime in, i was having decent luck compiling Express apps to a binary using the experimental Node built-in executable feature--two years ago i was able

Just to chime in, i was having decent luck compiling Express apps to a binary using the experimental Node built-in executable feature--two years ago i was able to ship a single-binary Node-Express server without much headache. Doesn't avoid the runtime, but it made deployment really easy. Otherwise, I'm just using Go for backend now.