funkyfisch/node-docker-devenv

Complete nodejs development environment prepared in a docker image

node-docker-devenv's Issues

Fix warnings on docker build time

Sample warnings:

• Warning: apt-key output should not be parsed (stdout is not a terminal)
• debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed

Add automated docker publish step on master merge

• Create a docker registry entry on docker hub for this project
• Create a select range of images (latest, node-12, node-13, node-14, etc)
• Decide whether to pin ubuntu versions or not and how often to maintain them
• Docker images created this way will not have a default global package installed
• Update documentation on how to use it with docker registry, and how to commit the change of an npm global module as an extra layer to the local image

Allow multiple ports to be exposed

An example would be rollup's plugin livereload, which needs port 35729 to be available in order to facilitate live/hot reloading when developing.

Change circle-ci jobs to run conditionally

The following jobs all do a different thing:

• shellcheck
• hadolint
• build

But we shall quickly exit each one of them if the files that are relevant have not been changed (e.g. only README file changed)

Currently there is a separate job that (unsuccessfully) cancels the workflow. Instead create a neat way to use lists of target files that need to be part of a change so that the job actually runs (and does not skip)

/npm-global/bin is not in the PATH by default

This directory would be convenient to be in the PATH by default, so that globally installed npm tools can be used without having to refer to their full path.

Non-root users cannot install npm modules globally

A setting baked in the dockerfile for the dev environment should allow users to install npm modules globally without the need of sudo or elevation of privileges in general.

Of course, taking care of this then begs the question - should we also allow c/c++ libraries/packages to be installed also in user space without elevation?