Re: How to work with npm from guix shell

[Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>]

Hi,

Am 18.02.22 um 13:27 schrieb Roland Everaert via:
> Unfortunatelly I got the following error during the execution of 'npm install -g @solid/community-server'

The -g flag tells npm that you want to install the package globaly, 
which on guix, is inside the read-only gnu store.
You can either just omit -g to install the packages in the current 
directory, or use 
<https://github.com/sindresorhus/guides/blob/master/npm-global-without-sudo.md>, 
which was proposed here: 
<https://yhetil.org/guix-user/87zhatypbh.fsf@jlicht.xyz/t/>

> 
> I am totally illiterate about node.js and its ecosystem. So, how to setup a proper environment for running node.js application with guix shell or guix in general?

Guix packages packages from other language specific packagers, like pip. 
But I don't think we have node modules tracked by guix.
AFAIK, the above solution is best practice.

Someone else might know more.

Martin