npm-preinstall

The module tries to solve this issue.

Installation

npm install npm-preinstall --save-dev

Usage

There are two ways

Use in a startup script (recommended)

Suppose, you have a monorepo. Define a workspace Yarn instruction inside your package.json like this:

{
  ...
  "workspaces": {
    "packages": [
      "packages/*"
    ]
  }
}

Or, instead, you may create .preinstallrc like this:

packages:
    wildcard:
        'packages/*'

Then, write a startup script like this:

#!/bin/bash

DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )";

npx npm-preinstall --monorepo

docker stop $(docker ps -aq) > /dev/null
docker-compose -f ${DIR}/../docker/development.yml up

With --monorepo key the module will look for packages folder one by one and install node_modules there. After this is done, docker-compose starts.

Use inside Dockerfile

Go to your Dockerfile and re-write your CMD like this:

FROM node:8.10
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends vim && apt-get clean
WORKDIR /app
RUN npm install serverless npm-preinstall -g
CMD ["npm-preinstall", '--cmd=\"npm run start\"']

Note, that it will take some time to install massive amount of files to a volume from a container. Also, sometimes npm simply fails to do that.

Use yarn instead of npm:

npx npm-preinstall --use-yarn ...