Amazon Elastic Beanstalk node and npm non-standard install locations

Question

Amazon Beanstalk installs node and npm into really obscure places - and I\'m not sure they won\'t change if EB decides to use a newer version of node, which would cause my appli

Answer 1

Following Peter Johnson & Greg Tatum replies I created a symlink to the latest node executable:

container_commands:
  01_node_binary:
    command: "ln -sf `ls -td /opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-* | head -1`/bin/node /bin/node"

• I find the latest version of the node install binary
• Out of it I create a symlink in the /bin directory (which is part of the $PATH)