node.js - Install node in Dockerfile?

Question

I am user of AWS elastic beanstalk, and I have a little problem. I want to build my CSS files with less+node. But I don`t know how to install node in my dockerfile, when building with jenkins.

Here is installation packages what I am using in my docker. I will be glad for any suggestions.

FROM php:5.6-apache


# Install PHP5 and modules along with composer binary
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -y install 
    curl 
    default-jdk 
    git 
    libcurl4-openssl-dev 
    libpq-dev 
    libmcrypt-dev 
    libpq5 
    npm 
    node 
    zlib1g-dev 
    libfreetype6-dev 
    libjpeg62-turbo-dev 
    libpng12-dev

RUN docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include/

RUN docker-php-ext-install curl json mbstring opcache pdo_mysql zip gd exif sockets mcrypt

# Install pecl
RUN pecl install -o -f memcache-beta 
    && rm -rf /tmp/pear 
    && echo 'extension=memcache.so' > /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/memcache.ini

After this I am runing my entrypoint.sh with code

#!/usr/bin/env sh

composer run-script post-install-cmd --no-interaction

chmod 0777 -R /var/app/app/cache
chmod 0777 -R /var/app/app/logs

exec apache2-foreground

But then I`ve got this error

 Error Output: [2016-04-04 11:23:44] assetic.ERROR: The template ":tmp:module.html.twig" contains an error: A template that extends another one cannot have a body in ":tmp:module.ht  
  ml.twig" at line 7.     

But when I install inside the Docker container node this way

apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev
 git clone https://github.com/nodejs/node.git
 cd node
 ./configure
 make
 sudo make install
 node -v

I can build my CSS. So question is..how this installation above make install inside my Dockerfile when I am building it with Jenkins?

Answer 1

I think this works slightly better.

ENV NODE_VERSION=12.6.0
RUN apt install -y curl
RUN curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash
ENV NVM_DIR=/root/.nvm
RUN . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" && nvm install ${NODE_VERSION}
RUN . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" && nvm use v${NODE_VERSION}
RUN . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" && nvm alias default v${NODE_VERSION}
ENV PATH="/root/.nvm/versions/node/v${NODE_VERSION}/bin/:${PATH}"
RUN node --version
RUN npm --version

Note that nvm is a version manager for node.js, designed to be installed per-user, and invoked per-shell. nvm works on any POSIX-compliant shell (sh, dash, ksh, zsh, bash), in particular on these platforms: unix, macOS, and windows WSL.