Libnode with a C API and Rust bindings

This repo contains patches to Nodejs to add a C API to libnode and a Rust crate that has bindings to embed Nodejs within a Rust application.

Usage (Rust)

Using the libnode_rs crate you can execute JavaScript directly in your Rust application

use libnode_rs;

pub fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
  // Inject a native module into the JavaScript runtime
  libnode_rs::napi_module_register("my_native_extension", |env, exports| {
    // Modify and return the exports object
    exports
  });

  // Execute JavaScript and access the native extensions via process._linkedBinding
  libnode_rs::eval_blocking(r#"
    const message: string = "Hello World TypeScript"
    console.log(message)
    console.log(process._linkedBinding("my_native_extension"))
  "#)?;

  Ok(())
}

Building

# Linux
./scripts/build

# Windows
./scripts/build.ps1

To Do

• Build libnode statically and vendor it into the Rust crate
  • The expectation is that consumers should be able to produce portable single binary applications with Nodejs embedded
  • If anyone is good with C/C++, linkers, and all of that magic, please help. This is not my area of expertise and I've had no success in my attempts so far