For better and for worse, I believe that's no longer true: devtools is
now using it to transpile JSX files to JS files as part of the normal
build.

Dan
Am Do., 8. Nov. 2018 um 13:55 Uhr schrieb Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org>:
>
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 05:32:40AM -0800, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > I understand the desire for developers do use the best tool for each job, 
> > and integrating NodeJS in the regular work flow during development might be 
> > a good idea.
> >
> > However, requiring NodeJS for each build (including the official releases) 
> > causes great problems: NodeJS itself is way less portable than Firefox, and 
> > I am building one of the strangler platforms - on sparc64. NodeJS seems to 
> > have no support at all for sparc CPUs, and I am not yet sure how hard it 
> > would be to add. I will investigate (as time permits).
> >
> > So I have a concrete question: are the outputs of the NodeJS runs during a 
> > build actually target machine / OS dependent? At first I would hope not, 
> > and in this case: would it be possible to pre-generate the NodeJS output 
> > files for each official release, and then allow building with those 
> > pre-generated files instead of a local NodeJS installation?
> >
>
> Note that for your _immediate_ needs, you can just --disable-nodejs,
> because node is currently *not* actually used for anything. That won't
> be the case for very long, though.
>
> Mike
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