javascript - How to Runing scripts and code strings outside virtual machine in this script Node Js?

Question

The following code is part of the Node-Red core node libraries, as you can see it executes scripts in a virtual machine "vm" Node Js module.

script on github node-red link

Any ideas on how the code should be written to execute script using the context of the Node Js environment instead of "vm" removing virtual machine usage?

Note: I am not interested in the problems related to executing insecure code, I just want it to do it outside the virtual machine to be able to use all the Node Js modules and their Globals without breaking Node-Red, because runInThisContext, get() and edit config.js is not the solution I want to remove the use of "vm".

Thanks for any idea

Answer 1

Thanks to @knolleary

The solution is:

unsafe-function node for node-red node

unsafe-function node for node-red source

forked version of node-red

changes:

• Replaced node "function" with node code "insecure function"
• The node "vm" was created with the old node "function"
• Added "text / x-red" script data help to new "function" node
• Updated the data help of the script "text / x-red" to the new node "vm"
• Added "require-from-string" dependency to node-red dependencies