Node-ninja: Native Addon Build Tool

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library 1.0.2 ·javascript abandoned
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Node-ninja is a cross-platform command-line utility for compiling Node.js native addon modules. It serves as a fork of node-gyp, bundling the gyp project used by the Chromium team, with the long-term, unfulfilled goal of transitioning to the Ninja build system. The tool aims to simplify the process of building native modules across different platforms and supports compiling for multiple Node.js ABI versions by downloading necessary development headers. The current stable version is 1.0.2. Its release cadence is effectively non-existent, as the last release is considerably old, targeting historical Node.js versions (e.g., 0.8, 0.9, 0.10, 1.0) and Python 2.7. Key differentiators from upstream node-gyp, at the time of its last development, included better support for projects with multiple gyp files and incremental builds for prebuilds. However, it is now largely superseded by the actively maintained `node-gyp` and appears to be an abandoned project.

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