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by divbzero 561 days ago
People do refer to these standalone apps as “single-file” [1] but I find “single executable” [2] to be less ambiguous.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/sing...

[2]: https://nodejs.org/api/single-executable-applications.html

2 comments

That's "single-file deployment." I've never heard anyone shorten single-file deployment as just "single-file," until now.
Java .wars, but native and talking HTTP.