Are Node.js addons supported by CEP?

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Is CEP supposed to load node.js addon DLLs (*.node, like Samples/bson.node at master · Adobe-CEP/Samples · GitHub)? If it is, are there any related gotchas?

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erinferinferinf

Adobe Employee

Note this sample is now at: https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources/tree/master/CEP_11.x/Samples/CEP_HTML_Test_Extension-10.0/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/bson

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lesavage

Inspiring

Hi Alexander,

JavaScript Modules

All third-party node JavaScript modules are supported. The root search path of third-party modules is the directory which contains your html file. For example, when you do require in file:///your_extension/index.html, CEP will lookup modules under file:///your_extension/node_modules, this rule is exactly the same with upstream node.

Native Modules

Node.js native modules are not directly supported since CEP is using a different V8 version from the official node.

Kind regards,

Lea

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AlexanderShAuthor

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> Node.js native modules are not directly supported

Thanks for the reply. Does this mean that Node.js native modules may still be supported indirectly? Otherwise, how should the said example work?

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

One indirect is to use wasm instead of the node library. For example I wanted to use sqlite but instead ended up using sqlite wasm and hosted it in an invisible extension.

-Manan

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-Manan

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