`importNpmLock.buildNodeModules` returns a derivation with a pre-built `node_modules` directory, as imported by `importNpmLock`.
This is to be used together with `importNpmLock.hooks.linkNodeModulesHook` to facilitate `nix-shell`/`nix develop` based development workflows:
```nix
pkgs.mkShell {
packages = [
importNpmLock.hooks.linkNodeModulesHook
nodejs
];
npmDeps = importNpmLock.buildNodeModules {
npmRoot = ./.;
inherit nodejs;
};
}
```
will create a development shell where a `node_modules` directory is created & packages symlinked to the Nix store when activated.
This code is adapted from https://github.com/adisbladis/buildNodeModules
This is an alternative to `fetchNpmDeps` that is notably different in that it uses metadata from `package.json` & `package-lock.json` instead of specifying a fixed-output hash.
Notable features:
- IFD free.
- Only fetches a node dependency once. No massive FODs.
- Support for URL, Git and path dependencies.
- Uses most of the existing `npmHooks`
`importNpmLock` can be used _only_ in the cases where we need to check in a `package-lock.json` in the tree.
Currently this means that we have 13 packages that would be candidates to use this function, though I expect most usage to be in private repositories.
This is upstreaming the builder portion of https://github.com/adisbladis/buildNodeModules into nixpkgs (different naming but the code is the same).
I will archive this repository and consider nixpkgs the new upstream once it's been merged.
For more explanations and rationale see https://discourse.nixos.org/t/buildnodemodules-the-dumbest-node-to-nix-packaging-tool-yet/35733
Example usage:
``` nix
stdenv.mkDerivation {
pname = "my-nodejs-app";
version = "0.1.0";
src = ./.;
nativeBuildInputs = [
importNpmLock.hooks.npmConfigHook
nodejs
nodejs.passthru.python # for node-gyp
npmHooks.npmBuildHook
npmHooks.npmInstallHook
];
npmDeps = buildNodeModules.fetchNodeModules {
npmRoot = ./.;
};
}
```
