Running npm install in a package dir with no arguments

[ingomueller-net]

I would like to run npm install in a package dir with no arguments in order to install the dependencies of this package. I do not want to deploy the package dir itself with npm. This corresponds to the first form of invocation of npm in the docs. I believe that this is currently not possible, right? I suggest to add this functionality though...

[juniorsysadmin]

An empty string as the title for a defined type is not valid, so no, you can't do this with the npm defined type at the moment. This should probably be a new type of its own. Say, run_npm_install { '/path/to/directory': }

[igalic]

👍

[linuxbandit]

+1

[igalic]

@serviceman do you wanna provide a patch?
me and @juniorsysadmin are mostly covered in administration these days :(

[linuxbandit]

wish so, but unfortunately I have few time and zero knowledge of Ruby (and rather few of puppet), so I can't make it!

[jyaworski]

What's the status of this?

[igalic]

@jyaworski this is still desired and missing

[NoodlesNZ]

While it's not ideal, you can run nodejs::npm like this:

nodejs::npm { 'App dependencies':
  ensure  => 'present',
  package => '',
  target  => '/home/example/',
}

Which runs "npm install" in that directory

[igalic]

is that idempotent, though?

[juniorsysadmin]

Functionality added by #300