Source: node-binary-extensions Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Vivek Section: javascript Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) , node-tape , dh-sequence-nodejs Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Rules-Requires-Root: no Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-binary-extensions Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-binary-extensions.git Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/binary-extensions#readme Package: node-binary-extensions Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign Description: List of binary file extensions The list is just a JSON file and can be used wherever. . This library is a dependency for webpack. Webpack takes code targeted at node.js and makes it run in the browser. Node.js comes with API of its own that is not available in the browsers. Webpack exposes this code to programs that are unaware they are running in a browser. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.