latest-nodejs.org

API for fetching the latest Node.js binaries from the official nodejs.org website.

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Overview

Download the latest version listed on the nodejs.org website for your chosen platform using this simple API, as illustrated by the examples below:

Curl

[user@host]$ curl -JOL 'http://latest-nodejs.org/download/lts/linux/binary/64-bit'
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    81  100    81    0     0     81      0  0:00:01 --:--:--  0:00:01 13500
100 10.8M  100 10.8M    0     0  2225k      0  0:00:05  0:00:05 --:--:-- 2757k
curl: Saved to filename 'node-v8.9.3-linux-x64.tar.xz'

Wget

wget --trust-server-names 'http://latest-nodejs.org/download/current/linux/binary/ARMv8'
--2017-12-24 14:48:44--  http://latest-nodejs.org/download/current/linux/binary/64-bit
Resolving latest-nodejs.org (latest-nodejs.org)...
Connecting to latest-nodejs.org (latest-nodejs.org)... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://nodejs.org/dist/v9.3.0/node-v9.3.0-linux-arm64.tar.xz [following]
--2017-12-24 14:55:26--  https://nodejs.org/dist/v9.3.0/node-v9.3.0-linux-arm64.tar.xz
Resolving nodejs.org (nodejs.org)... 104.20.22.46, 104.20.23.46, 2400:cb00:2048:1::6814:162e, ...
Connecting to nodejs.org (nodejs.org)|104.20.22.46|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10704696 (10M) [application/x-xz]
Saving to: ‘node-v9.3.0-linux-arm64.tar.xz’

node-v9.3.0-linux-a 100%[===================>]  10.21M  3.11MB/s    in 4.1s

2017-12-24 14:55:32 (2.50 MB/s) - ‘node-v9.3.0-linux-arm64.tar.xz’ saved [10704696/10704696]

Further information is available at latest-nodejs.org.

Installation

Use the following instructions to install your own version of this service.

Install this package

cd /var/www
git clone https://github.com/damoclark/latest-nodejs.org.git
cd latest-nodejs.org
npm install

Configure the update script

Add the update script to crontab

sudo crontab -e

Then add the following:

0 * * * * PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/node/bin node /var/www/latest-nodejs.org/bin/update.js -o /var/www/latest-nodejs.org/data/urls.json >/var/www/latest-nodejs.org/data/urls.log 2>&1

Configure start-up of the app using systemd

cd /var/www/latest-nodejs.org
sudo cp contrib/latest-nodejs.org.service /etc/systemd/system/ # Edit the file to change the PORT & IP parameter
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start latest-nodejs.org
sudo systemctl enable latest-nodejs.org

Usage

Usage instructions are available at latest-nodejs.org.

Licence

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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