About Node.js Maven Plugin

Maven Plugin to wrap the Node.js execution.

Documentation

Supported Platforms

The plugin currently supports following platforms:

Windows (32 and 64 bit)
Mac OS (32 and 64 bit and Apple Silicon - arm64)
Linux (i386 and amd64)

By default the NPM version that is bundled with Node.js is used. Optionally it is possible to specify a different NPM version to be used.

Node.js binary download

The plugin needs to download Node.js binaries which are not available in Maven Central. To support managing the download and caching of these artefacts they are wrapped as Maven Artifacts using the Maven NodeJS Proxy.

A public version of this proxy is running at https://maven-nodejs-proxy.pvtool.org/. You have to include this URL in your Maven Artifact Manager our run your own instance of Maven NodeJS Proxy.

Acknowledgements

This plugin is derived from https://github.com/ClearboxSystems/NodeJsMaven.

Alternatives

The most prominent alternative to this plugin is the frontend-maven-plugin. These are the most notable differences:

The frontend-maven-plugin defines goals for specific tools like grunt, gulp, karma, whereas the nodejs-maven-plugin has just one generic run goals that lets you execute any Node.js-based tool.
The nodejs-maven-plugin automatically downloads and installs the required NPM version on your local system, using the frontend-maven-plugin plugin you need a separate goal for this.
The nodejs-maven-plugin supports downloading the NPM binaries via maven dependencies (Maven NodeJS Proxy) - this allows caching the binaries the same way all other maven binaries are cached, and also helps if all internet communication is locked down on your build systems despite the artifact manager.

GitHub Repository

Sources: https://github.com/wcm-io/io.wcm.maven.plugins.nodejs-maven-plugin