How to create a stand alone command line application with Node.js

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Published on 2012-03-15T17:16:22Z Indexed on 2012/03/30 5:29 UTC
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I'm trying to find a way to use a command line nodejs application that I created on a computer without node.js installed. In other words how to package my application with node.js inside, in order to avoid the users to have node.js already installed.

The tipical use case is: I run the application and the application works using the node core that is provide with the application (or the application checks if there is node.js installed, and if not it donwload and install it automatically).

Do you have any idea?

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