nodejs

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• Installation and Dependencies
• Tags
• Examples
• Development & Testing

This role installs and configures nodejs from NodeSource on Debian based systems.

Installation and Dependencies

To install this role run ansible-galaxy install sansible.nodejs or add this to your roles.yml

- name: sansible.nodejs
  version: v3.1

and run ansible-galaxy install -p ./roles -r roles.yml

Tags

This role uses two tags: build and configure

• build - Installs nodejs.
• configure - does nothing (for now).

Examples

Simply install latest LTS version.

- name: Install Node.js
  hosts: sandbox

  pre_tasks:
    - name: Update apt
      become: yes
      apt:
        cache_valid_time: 1800
        update_cache: yes
      tags:
        - build

  roles:
    - role: sansible.nodejs
      sansible_nodejs_version: 4

Install latest LTS version, latest lorem-ipsum and v0.15.3 of forever NPMs. NPM installation accepts the same arguments as the Ansible npm module, with the exception that global is set to yes by default.

- name: Install Node.js
  hosts: sandbox

  pre_tasks:
    - name: Update apt
      become: yes
      apt:
        cache_valid_time: 1800
        update_cache: yes
      tags:
        - build

  roles:
    - role: sansible.nodejs
      sansible_nodejs_version: 4
      sansible_nodejs_npms:
        - name: lorem-ipsum
        - name: forever
          version: '0.15.3'

When using this role you may encounter permission issues when running commands such as NPM as a non-root user (see fixing npm permissions for more information). To fix permissions for a particular user you can pass in their name like so:

- name: Install Node.js
  hosts: sandbox

  pre_tasks:
    - name: Update apt
      become: yes
      apt:
        cache_valid_time: 1800
        update_cache: yes
      tags:
        - build

  roles:
    - role: sansible.nodejs
      sansible_nodejs_version: 9
      sansible_nodejs_workspace_user: some_user

Development & Testing

If you want to work on this role, please start with running make watch. This will re-provision docker images on any file changes.