Node.js compatibility?

[rix0rrr]

So this may be an odd question, and maybe what I want simply cannot be achieved, but here goes anyway:

• I need a fake NPM registry to test some packages we're about to publish locally, before actually publishing them. Verdaccio, the only game in town, has chosen to use LevelDB to implement its storage.
• The level package will automatically pick the leveldown implementation in a Node.js environment.
• Leveldown has a compiled component, which requires node-gyp, which requires Python and a compiler.

Result: I cannot run this test on a simple Windows instance, which does not come with Python, nor a compiler. Both of these are a pain and expensive to install on a CI/CD run (given a plain Windows container image), and it's just as much of a pain to now maintain a publishing pipeline for a Windows image with those 2 tools baked in, just to be able to install Verdaccio to run my NPM tests.

Given this is integ tests and I don't really care about performance, I'd like to be able to switch out the leveldown implementation for the level-js implementation (a compatible but slower JS implementation of leveldown, right?).

Is this something I can do, or something you would consider supporting?

[vweevers]

On the latest version of leveldown, you don't necessarily need node-gyp, python, etc, because it ships prebuilt binaries (for 32 and 64 bit windows) inside the npm package.

I'd like to be able to switch out the leveldown implementation for the level-js implementation

level-js only works in browsers (because it's backed by IndexedDB) but there are plenty of alternatives! See https://github.com/Level/awesome#bundles and https://github.com/Level/awesome#stores

[rix0rrr]

Thanks for the response!