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node-gyp is a tool that enables the compilation of native add-on modules for Node in multiple platforms. It has widespread use and is included as a dependency in many NPM packages. On most systems, this isn't an issue, and installing node-gyp with the rest of your packages works as expected.
node-gyp requires that you have installed a compatible version of Python, one of: v3. 7, v3. 8, v3. 9, or v3.
node-gyp folder is the devDir of node-gyp (see relevant source code). This is where development header files are copied in order to perform the compilation of native modules. you can safely delete this directory, as it will be re-created the next time you'll install a module that needs node-gyp .
As described above, node-pre-gyp is a tool that makes it easy to deploy platform-specific binaries to a host (i.e. an Amazon S3 bucket), and set your addon up to automatically download the correct binary based on where it's being installed.
node-gyp is a tool which compiles Node.js Addons. Node.js Addons are native Node.js Modules, written in C or C++, which therefore need to be compiled on your machine. After they are compiled with tools like node-gyp, their functionality can be accessed via require(), just as any other Node.js Module.
If you do what you suggested the module won't work, you will need to compile it/build it with node-gyp on the system you moved the program to.
node-gyp: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp
Node.js Addons: https://nodejs.org/api/addons.html
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