Npm package distribution for Non Docker Yaci CLI

[satran004]

Now that we have a non-Docker Yaci CLI distribution, we can plan for an npm package distribution for Yaci CLI.

Refer to the original issue for details. #28

[SebastienGllmt]

I definitely still want this (and not requiring Docker is a massive improvement!)

For reference, the way Hardhat does this is that they have a single root edr package (this is the name of their in-memory EVM node) on NPM (here) which then lists as a dependency all the OS-specific distributions

That is to say, even if you add their package on Ubuntu, it will still download the NPM package for Windows and MacOS even though you don't need (tradeoff between filesize and usability)

It's easier for them to do it because their binaries are pretty small (10~20MBs per build target when zipped), whereas yaci-cli is 150MBs per build target (unzipped) so it probably can't support an excessive number of targets

You can find the code that the edr package uses to startup the right node for your OS here

[satran004]

Thanks @SebastienGllmt for the pointers. I will look into it.

We now have a non-docker version of CLI available for macOS and Linux.

For Windows, we currently have a blocker. Since the Windows Cardano node uses Windows named pipe instead of domain socket, the n2c connection has issues because Yaci CLI does not yet support named pipe. There are few operations like topup, needs n2c support.

We are already working on this and hopefully we will have a workaround soon.

Regarding the size of the Yaci CLI non-docker version, the CLI zip file is ~55 MB. (https://github.com/bloxbean/yaci-devkit/releases/tag/v0.10.0-preview2)
The node and other components are downloaded later using the download command.