Precompile story

[sindresorhus]

Currently the truth is that actually writing the native extension is the easy part. The hard part is distributing it in a sane way. For most things you'd want cross-platform support, meaning Windows too. But the reality is that very few users have the required build chain, which makes using only a native dependency for reusable modules a no-go. Most that do have a JS fallback... Or, precompiled binaries.

Would be nice if this boilerplate would demonstrate that, or at least point it out so users are aware of the reality.

There's https://github.com/mapbox/node-pre-gyp and many does their own build thingy https://github.com/sass/node-sass/tree/master/scripts

[fcanas]

That seems like a great idea. I'm just getting started on writing some native extensions, so I haven't worked through the difficulties of distributing them. As I worth through those issues in my own work, I'll try and address them in this repository. If, however, you have something in mind, I would love some more guidance or a PR.