Re: Web development on Guix: nodejs, npm and all that

["Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>]

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Hi t,

t@fullmeta.me writes:
> Do people do web-dev on Guix System? I need to dive back into the
> whole Node.js NPM ecosystem - something I've not touched for some 
> years and I'm wondering how people go about e.g. installing NPM
> packages on Guix.

> 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.

I do webdev on Guix, but I work in a team where I’m currently the only
Guix user, so my usage must work with changes we do.

I used to have a setup that used the local guix-installed npm (
https://www.draketo.de/software/guix-work#npm ), but that often broke,
so I switched to copying the

node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js

script from our build environment to

~/.local/bin/npm

(which I have on my path)
with #!/usr/bin/env node as hashbang.

That now actually works pretty well, and it uses the node from Guix.

Best wishes,
Arne
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