@lydell/node-pty

Smaller distribution of microsoft/node-pty.

• microsoft/node-pty ships with prebuilt binaries for multiple platforms. @lydell/node-pty only installs the prebuilt binaries needed for the current platform (depends on your package manager).
• microsoft/node-pty supports compiling using node-gyp on unsupported platforms, which requires more source files. @lydell/node-pty only works on platforms with prebuilt binaries and never calls node-gyp.
• microsoft/node-pty ships with unneeded files, such as source code TypeScript files, source maps and test files. @lydell/node-pty removes those.
• microsoft/node-pty is about 60 MiB. @lydell/node-pty is less than 1 MiB on macOS and Linux, and around 30 MiB on Windows.

@lydell/node-pty is built like this:

1. Download the original node-pty npm package.
2. Make one copy of it per supported platform.
3. For each copy, only include relevant files.
4. Make the @lydell/node-pty wrapper package, which depends on all the platform-specific packages using "optionalDependencies" in package.json, allowing package managers to only install the platform-specific package matching the current platform. The wrapper package only re-exports everything from the correct platform-specific package.

pty.js

microsoft/node-pty is forked from chjj/pty.js with the primary goals being to provide better support for later Node.js versions and Windows.

License

Copyright (c) 2012-2015, Christopher Jeffrey (MIT License).
Copyright (c) 2016, Daniel Imms (MIT License).
Copyright (c) 2018, Microsoft Corporation (MIT License).