alnoda-workspaces/workspaces/nodejs-workspace

Node.js workspace

Browser-based portable and containerized development environment for Javascript Node.js projects

Start

docker run --name space-1 -d -p 8020-8040:8020-8040 --restart=always alnoda/nodejs-workspace

open localhost:8020 in browser.

Features

• Node
• Npm
• Yarn
• Nvm
• Nodeenv
• Codeserver workspace features

Links

Alnoda docs
Alnoda Hub

Node.js

Open workspace terminal and check Node.js or npm versions

node -v
npm -v

To start Node.js REPL session simply execute

node

Nvm

Use another version of Node.js

nvm install 16.0.0
nvm use 16.0.0

Npm

Check npm version

npm -v

Install latest version of npm

npm install -g npm@latest

Yarn

Yarn is a package manager for Node. js that focuses on speed, security, and consistency. It was originally created to address some issues with the popular NPM package manager.

npm install --global yarn
yarn --version

Nodeenv

Node.js virtual environment - a tool to create isolated node.js environments.

It creates an environment that has its own installation directories, that doesn’t share libraries with other node.js virtual environments.

Create folder and vrtual ennvironment in it

mkdir /home/project/venv-test 
cd /home/project/venv-test
nodeenv --node=12.18.3 env && . env/bin/activate 

Check Nnode.js version

node -v
npm -v

Simple example

Clone example project

cd /home/project
git clone https://github.com/contentful/the-example-app.nodejs.git 
cd the-example-app.nodejs

Install the dependencies

npm install

Start app

export PORT=8026
npm run start:dev

Open Quickstart page, go to "My apps" and use port 8026 shortcut to open your web app