From: Remco <me@rwv.io>
To: t@fullmeta.me
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Web development on Guix: nodejs, npm and all that
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:02:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877db78z9r.fsf@rwv.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y23niukg.fsf@fastmail.com>
> So, how do people program for the Web, Node on Guix. Does =npm
> install= which defaults to local installation work well enough for
> most packages? An outline of what to expect and known problems and
> workarounds would be very useful.
Hi, a couple of the projects I work on depend on Node but I never ever
install npm packages globally. I setup most of my project development
environments using direnv and the node projects have an extra entry to
make the installed commands available:
PATH="$(expand_path node_modules/.bin):$PATH"
I haven't encountered any npm package which doesn't work when not
installed globally yet and it seems to me that would be a bug in said
package.
Anyway, direnv really shines with guix! It also includes a use_guix
statement to add deps using guix environment but I prefer to use
profiles instead because they are garbage collection resistant and avoid
new installs after I did a guix pull.
Cheers,
Remco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-10 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-10 13:17 Web development on Guix: nodejs, npm and all that t
2022-01-10 14:02 ` Remco [this message]
2022-01-10 15:16 ` t
2022-01-10 23:08 ` Jelle Licht
2022-01-10 14:54 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2022-01-10 18:15 ` Chris Marusich
2022-01-10 22:24 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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