ufirstgroup/npm-builder repository overview

⁠UFirst Docker NPM builder

The NPM builder docker image allows developers to build NPM projects without the need to install NodeJS and NPM.

⁠Usage

Run any npm command by running the image ufirtgroup/npm-builder.

• Mount the source folder as volume to source.
• You should define the ENV variable USER_ID to be your local user id

⁠BrowserSync

• If your setup runs BrowserSync you will have to maps the ports 3000 and 3001.
• Also add a hosts entry according to your BrowserSync config so that BrowserSync can access the web server. ** If the application NGINX runs in another docker container, this can be a link to that container.

⁠Example

docker run -it \
  -e "USER_ID=$(id -u)" \
  -v $PWD/frontend:/source \
  -p "3000:3000" \
  -p "3001:3001" \
  ufirstgroup/npm-builder \
  npm start

⁠Recommended Project Setup

Set up your project as follows:

• Make sure everybody adds ./bin permanently to its $PATH ENV variable.
• In you project root, create a folder ./bin
• Create an executable file called npm with the following contend (change according to your config):

docker run -it \
  -e "USER_ID=$(id -u)" \
  -v $PWD/frontend:/source \
  -p "3000:3000" \
  -p "3001:3001" \
  ufirstgroup/npm-builder \
  $(basename $0) $@