That’s overstating it a bit. As you can see, it’s an experimental, tedious, manual process with Node:

> Stability: 1 - Experimental: This feature is being designed and will change.

— https://nodejs.org/api/single-executable-applications.html

Deno, on the other hand, has it as a supported, complete feature that’s very easy to use:

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/manual/tools/compiler