A smoother way to ship Node apps

#​609 — January 29, 2026 Read on the Web 🌊   Improving Single Executable Application Building in Node — First introduced two years ago, Node has a (still experimental) feature to build single executable applications that can be deployed to machines that don’t have Node installed. This week’s Node.js 25.5 release, with its --build-sea flag, moves the final injection step into Node itself, eliminating the need for external tooling and turning what was a multi-step, low-level process into a single command. Joyee Cheung Node.js 25.5.0 (Current) Released — The new --build-sea command-line flag is the headline feature (see above). node:sqlite also enables defensive mode by default, and fs.watch gains an ignore option to filter filesystem events. Antoine du Hamel Clerk MCP Server for AI Coding Assistants — Your AI assistant hallucinates auth code because it's working from stale training data. The Clerk MCP server fixes that — connect Claude, Cursor, or Copilot to current SDK docs and get work