[OE-core] Fun with npm shrinkwrap

[Davis, Michael]

If offline builds, license checking, or stable dependency versions are not important to you then you can use the meta-nodejs layer.  It just uses the yarn tool directly https://github.com/imyller/meta-nodejs.


On a hijacked side note has yarn been considered as a solution to some of our npm issues?
It seems to be npm with built in licnese checking and better version determination.
Might not cover 100% of our use cases, but then npm only seems to work 50% of the time without tweaking something anyways.



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From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Jan Kiszka
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 7:04 AM
To: Alexander Kanavin; openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
Cc: Paul Eggleton
Subject: Re: [OE-core] Fun with npm shrinkwrap

On 2017-06-07 13:43, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 06/06/2017 06:14 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, good points. Probably this problem is also related to OE
>> reimplementing parts of the npm logic.
>>
>> But I suppose those concepts won't materialize very soon, will they? I'm
>> also looking for a short-term solution, at least some reasonable tactic
>> to generate such recipes in the meantime. Is there something in that
>> thread I should dig into?
> 
> What I am getting at is that it would be awesome if you convince your
> management that npm support in Yocto is a problem that needs a better
> solution and work on it. Yes, this means you can't work on product
> development for quite some time; this is the price for using open source
> projects without a commercial support contract :)

We are such a instance support :) - but we also need to get paid / pay
our contractors.

> 
> My apologies if this is not the answer you were seeking.
> 

I'm getting your point, even more now as I ran into a package that does
not even install at all (node-red-contrib-opcua). Can't promise anything
at this point, but I will carry this forward, in all directions.

Jan

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