Feature request: add npx so we can easily use global packages without installing them about docker-npm HOT 6 CLOSED

Hi,

I'm not familiar with npx but it looks interesting. I'll do a bit more reading but can you describe how the part about caching the packages in $HOME works? Would that be driven by a npx configuration file or something?

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Hi @mkenney,

npx is also new for me, but I understood it is possible to set a location for global files through the cli; it allows to specify the location of the npm cache by passing --cache. The docker command could then be something like:

docker run --rm -$term_type -v $(pwd):/src:rw -v $HOME/.ssh:/home/dev/.ssh:ro -v $HOME/{THE_CACHE_DIRECTORY}:/path/to/cache mkenney/npm:$TAG /run-as-user /usr/local/bin/$SCRIPT $@

Actually, come to think of it, it looks like it is not necessary to pass anything extra to npx, just mounting the right folder to the npm cache should work I think.

I'd need to do a bit more investigation on this though. I think it would need to be optional, so I'm uncertain how this would work best in the setup of your project, if it would be done by setting an environment variable or something else. If you like I can look into it and see if I can make it part of this, or we could do it seperately after this lands.

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Ok, that makes sense. If you have any thoughts around how to implement that, that would be great. I'd be open to an environment variable with a sane default that mounts to $HOME/.npx or whatever the standard location is. I would expect that users who execute npx would like it to cache things automatically by default.

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Related threads: #166, #167

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@dagomar, @jgoux, this has been released. I also included changes for #166 and #167. To resolve #166 (and the cache issue here) I added mounting $HOME/.npm to all of the scripts.

Please take a look at the updated scripts and latest tags on hub.docker.com and let me know if you have any problems. Thank you!

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Closing, feel free to reopen.

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