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by eddsh1994 1259 days ago
Yes, because now I need to install node, probably run npm install, etc…
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there's no npm install and there's no etc.

All the files needed to run a node application are in node_modules. If node is on the container, you can just rsync the scripts.

I think you're comparing distributing stand alone binaries, vs distributing the source code for a node app, and then installing its dependencies, and maybe doing some transpiling. That's not a fair comparison.