I personally usually use Python, Bash, or C, but there is a utility for packaging NodeJS tools into executables. I think it does some tree-shaking as well. Disclaimer: I haven't used it, so I'm not sure of the results. But it is possible.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/pkg

edit: For the curious -- Just tried on a really simple script that just takes one argument and writes it with some text to STDOUT and it still came to 35MB. So it must package a bunch of Node with it. I won't be leaving my go-to's for it anytime soon unless usability and development speed necessitate it. Going to have to go with the, best to not use NodeJS for general cmd-line utils outside of the NodeJS environment. The one perk is that it will, by default, output executables for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Source:

    (function() {
    'use strict';

      function main(_string) {
        console.log(`${_string} was read from STDIN.`);
      }

      main(process.argv[2]);

    }());

Output file:

    35088858 Nov 20 11:36 index-linux
    35717043 Nov 20 11:36 index-macos
    23137020 Nov 20 11:36 index-win.exe