Chakra

[mathiasrw]

Any plans to support versions of node running on Chakra from Microsoft?

[ljharb]

Chakra is not cross-platform, and nvm does not work on Windows - and Windows bash is still too buggy for it to work (hopefully soon tho).

When node with Chakra works on Mac and Linux, then it would be worth considering, with the same concerns as for jxcore in #729.

[gentlefox]

I guess that would be now:
xplat - cross-platform ChakraCore

[ljharb]

While it's still unlikely nvm will support non-official builds, I'll open this in case someone wants to try a pull request.

[DylanPiercey]

https://github.com/mozilla/spidernode would also be nice to add :D.

[chicoxyzzy]

Node ChakraCore binaries
https://nodejs.org/download/chakracore-nightly/

[chicoxyzzy]

My colleague has pointed me to this thread when she was searching a way to install Node ChakraCore via nvm so I'll leave this here in case someone need this too:

NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR=https://nodejs.org/download/chakracore-nightly/ nvm i node

https://gist.github.com/chicoxyzzy/77dcbf21485d80b3ad870ed0d3286579

Enjoy!

[ljharb]

Please be aware though; if you do this, your local nvm installation will almost certainly break in the future as I ship future capabilities.

[xzyfer]

I'll open this in case someone wants to try a pull request.

What would you require of such a pull request that wont "almost certainly break in the future as I ship future capabilities."?

[ljharb]

@xzyfer the reality is that chakra support kind of needs to wait until RC support lands, so it can follow that pattern (which will be used in nightlies as well).

[xzyfer]

I don't see a tracking issue for that feature besides #779. Is there somewhere we can follow or contribute to the progress of rc/nightly support?

[ljharb]

That's the only place to follow; the best contributions are helping to clear out other outstanding bugs.

[firrae]

Is there any update on this? Node ChakraCore 10 released in unison with Node 10 V8. I'd love to try it out to see if it helps any of what I'm doing and play with it a bit. Installing it via NVM seems like a no-brainer for ths type of use case.