Alpine Linux with Docker – node build tool updates

Smaller distros like Alpine for containers just seems to make sense.

Some build tools for node.js include:

apk --update add bash nano wget python make gcc g++

You can install on a “build” container and create an artifact to transfer to a sparse box without the build tools. See base images like:
mhart/alpine-node.

Add local Node JS module to CLI path

To run a local Node module as if it was installed globally, add this to your login profile (or set up a script to run/reset as needed):

export PATH=$PATH:./node_modules/.bin