Re: How to work with npm from guix shell

[Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>]

Hi

> Hello,
>
> I try to install the community server of the solid project using the following documentation in a guix shell session.
>
> https://solidproject.org//self-hosting/css
>
> Unfortunatelly I got the following error during the execution of 'npm install -g @solid/community-server'

This command installs stuff globally, which tries to access system's directories and that's what's giving you the error (the store is immutable).
What I suggest is to remove the -g so the packages are going to be installed in the current folder under node_modules, and you'll be able to run them by their path:

./node_modules/community-server/bin/whatever

You can also add that to the PATH and simplify some things.
That's what I do.

But there might be other better options, like setting where should npm install the packages globally? I don't know about that.

Hope that helps