Posts Tagged nodejs

Next-level IaC: Drop those wrapper scripts and let your language do that for you

Tuesday, Apr 30, 2024

Our users are always telling us (particularly the ones who come to Pulumi from other IaC tools) that being able to use general-purpose languages to manage their infrastructure was a game changer for them. I know it was for me. As a JavaScript developer, when I discovered Pulumi and saw that I could do pretty much everything I was doing with Terraform but with TypeScript, I was immediately hooked; that’s all it took.

Run Pulumi with Any TypeScript Version

Tuesday, Apr 16, 2024

Pulumi allows you to use the best features of programming languages to build your infrastructure while ensuring compatibility with your current development environments. To this end Pulumi provides a seamless experience when authoring TypeScript programs, managing the compilation of your program for you. With the latest release of our Node.js SDK, we’ve made this even more flexible by making it easier than ever to choose the version of TypeScript you want to use.

Node.js Native Binary Compilation Using vercel/pkg

Tuesday, Sep 13, 2022

In Pulumi’s engineering department, we often build and distribute tools as native binaries to avoid the need for additional dependencies on user machines. Most of these tools are written in Go, which has good support for building self-contained binaries that target modern operating systems. While other Pulumi-supported languages like Node.js, Python, and .NET require additional runtime dependencies, it’s possible to bundle dependencies with the program. In this article, we’ll show you how to do that for a Node.