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

I created the file /.ebextensions/node.config in my project folder to declare my node version and add symlinks to the /bin folder. More information about the .ebextensions folder can be found here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/customize-containers-ec2.html

option_settings:
  - option_name: NodeVersion
    value: 0.12.2
files:
  "/bin/node" :
    mode: "755755"
    content: "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v0.12.2-linux-x64/bin/node"
  "/bin/npm" :
    mode: "755755"
    content: "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v0.12.2-linux-x64/bin/npm"