JavaScript.exe - Standalone Executables

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about JavaScript executables - what is it? What’s the benefit of them? And what kind of tooling exists to support them? Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:12 What are JavaScript executables? 04:39 Deploying tooling 06:01 Running on a USB stick 07:57 The size 12:19 Fastly The edge cloud platform behind the best of the web | Fastly Deno — A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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0:00.0	Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!
0:12.0	Web development! The hastiest! The craziest! The tastiest! Web development
0:16.0	treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes! Barakuda! Boss! And Scott!
0:22.0	Toro Lungo! Tolinsky! Welcome to syntax! On this Monday hasty treat,
0:32.0	we're going to be talking about JavaScript executables. We're going to be execute
0:38.0	non-smexcutables talking about .exe. Although executables, not always exe,
0:44.0	that's the Windows extension. So let's talk about what the heck in a JavaScript
0:49.0	executable is and why we might need to worry about them and what people
0:54.0	are doing about them in the space. We have a bunch of new players,
0:57.0	whether that's no Dino pun. A lot of people talking about executables these days.
1:02.0	With me, as always, is my man Wes Boss. Wes, what's up my dude?
1:07.0	Hey, I am stoked to talk about JavaScript executables. So let's get
1:13.0	into what that is real quick and then we'll get into like, why would
1:17.0	you ever want to do that? So the idea with JavaScript is that
1:22.0	JavaScript is not a compiled or bundled language, meaning that when
1:29.0	you... Yeah, no, it's not by default. Yeah.
1:35.0	Some languages out there will allow you to write like Rust is an example.
1:41.0	You can run it and it will compile it to go as like this.
1:45.0	It will compile it to low-level assembly code that will just run on
1:50.0	your computer's CPU. JavaScript is not that way.
1:53.0	You write JavaScript and then you have to ship that and run that.
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