pulumi/sdk/nodejs/README.md
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Pulumi Fabric Node.js SDK

The Pulumi Fabric Node.js SDK lets you write cloud programs in JavaScript.

Installing

For now, we only support developers building from source. Eventually we will have a nice installer.

Prerequisites

To build and install the SDK, you will first need a few things.

First, install Node.js 6.10.2. We recommend nvm, since it makes it easier to switch between versions of Node.js. Afterwards, run nvm install 6.10.2.

Next, we suggest using Yarn for package management. NPM works too, but Yarn is faster and therefore preferred. Please follow the directions on Yarn's website.

Building and Testing

The first time you build, you must make configure to install and prepare native plugins for V8:

$ make configure

Make sure to run this after installing the right version of Node.js above, otherwise it may bind to the wrong version.

To build the SDK, simply run make from the root directory (sdk/nodejs/). This will build the code, run tests, and then "install" the package (by yarn linking the resulting bin/ directory).

We recommend putting bin/ on your $PATH, since the pulumi-langhost-nodejs executable will be loaded dynamically by the lumi tool whenever it encounters a Node.js program.

The tests will verify that everything works, but feel free to try running lumi plan and/or lumi deploy from the examples/minimal/ directory. Remember to run tsc first, since lumi expects JavaScript, not TypeScript.