Support installing binaries for multiple platforms

[jacobjove]

Describe the feature

It would be great if SWC could optionally be installed for multiple platforms at the same time by specifying the binary targets (e.g., MacOS and Linux).

My use case: I have a NextJS application running in Docker. In dev environment, I use a volume for node_modules so that when I install a package in the project on my MacBook, the package is also added in the development container without me having to rebuild the container or run something like docker compose exec nextjs npm i <package>. This has worked well for me and is very convenient. However, currently, it does not work for SWC; if I run npm i -D @swc/cli @swc/core on my MacBook, it uses the binary for MacOS, so the Linux-based container does not get what it needs.

Here's an example of a similar feature that I use for Prisma:
https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/components/prisma-schema/generators#binary-targets

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[Brooooooklyn]

@iacobfred you can just run npm install --ignore-platform to install all the platforms binary

Sorry, --ignore-platform is only worked for yarn

[nradulaski-godaddy]

Resolved it by adding it as optional dependency:

   "optionalDependencies": {
        "@swc/core-linux-x64-musl": "~1.2.143"
    }

[laytong]

It looks like esbuild already supports this behaviour

i think by the way they generate their postinstall install.js file
https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/blob/79a35122062c8e99bf9ab62f03fbafa641139e15/scripts/esbuild.js

It would be great if we could fix this to support multiplatform zero installs with yarn berry

[laytong]

update

Looks like it does work as long as you specify all of supportedArchitectures details in your .yarnrc.yml

not just say os

e.g.

supportedArchitectures:
  os:
    - darwin
    - linux
  cpu:
    - x64
  libc:
    - glibc

will install
@swc-core-darwin-x64-npm-1.2.210
@swc-core-linux-x64-gnu-npm

Initially hadn't specified glibc and the linux optional dep wouldn't install

It'd be great if this could support zero installs based on the supportedArchitectures

[kwonoj]

I'm inclined to leave this to upstream support : npm/rfcs#612

Techinincally instead of the way swc/core currently distributes binary (optionalDependencies) we could implement own download logics, but that's not an easy to get it right without error. As commented yarn have support, and if npm got an equivalent support this'll be resolved naturally.

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