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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# Copyright 2018-2019 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.
+"""
+gn can only run python scripts. This launches a subprocess Node process.
+The working dir of this program is out/Debug/ (AKA root_build_dir)
+Before running node, we symlink js/node_modules to out/Debug/node_modules.
+"""
+import sys
+from os import path
+from util import symlink, root_path, run
+
+if not path.exists("node_modules"):
+    target_abs = path.join(root_path, "third_party/node_modules")
+    target_rel = path.relpath(target_abs)
+    symlink(target_rel, "node_modules", True)
+
+run(["node"] + sys.argv[1:], quiet=True)