I am trying to build an application requiring NPM on Open Build Service. When building the application locally, one of the steps is
cding into a directory containing package.lock and then running npm install.
For obvious reasons this fails on a computer with no internet access.
What I would like is to download the required node modules somehow and then add them as part of the application source.
If node_modules included only text files, I could just tar it up and unpack it on the remote server. Unfortunately, some of the modules include binaries which are built by NPM using g++, and I don't want to include opaque binaries as a “source”.
How can I split npm install into two steps:
- to be performed locally and producing human-readable source
- to be performed by OBS using downloaded sources and not requiring internet access?
