node-smol

Socket's customized Node.js distribution — source patches, builtins, SEA packaging, platform artifacts, and release assembly.

Why this repo exists

node-smol owns the Node source patches, builtins, SEA packaging, platform artifacts, and release assembly for Socket's customized Node.js distribution. Reusable native capabilities remain Rust-canonical in their owner repositories; upstream/ holds shallow, pinned source references, and adapters consume those references through a .node addon or a narrow node:smol-* builtin contract.

Install

Binaries ship as GitHub release assets — download the artifact for your platform from the releases page.

gh release download --repo SocketDev/node-smol

Usage

Run the downloaded binary in place of node:

./node-smol --version

Upstream contracts

• upstream/stuie — terminal UI and ANSI mouse parsing. The Rust crate is the canonical implementation; future node:smol-tui integration must run its shared fixture corpus before a pin advances.

Development

Contributor commands

git submodule update --init --depth 1
pnpm install
pnpm run check
pnpm run test

The first extraction wave moves the Node-specific builder and release surfaces from socket-btm without changing public package names.

License

MIT