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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+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 subprocess
+import sys
+import os
+import util
+
+root_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
+tools_path = os.path.join(root_path, "tools")
+third_party_path = os.path.join(root_path, "third_party")
+target_abs = os.path.join(third_party_path, "node_modules")
+target_rel = os.path.relpath(target_abs)
+
+util.remove_and_symlink(target_rel, "node_modules", True)
+util.run(["node"] + sys.argv[1:])