No access permission error with npm global install on docker image

Question

I\'m trying to build a docker image with a global install of firebase-tools and angular-cli. I\'m building the same image for two versions of node: 6.x (LTS bor

Answer 1

I was able to get it working by changing the default npm-global directory.

This is my dockerfile now:

FROM node:latest
USER node

RUN mkdir /home/node/.npm-global
ENV PATH=/home/node/.npm-global/bin:$PATH
ENV NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=/home/node/.npm-global

RUN npm install --quiet --no-progress -g @angular/cli@latest firebase-tools
RUN npm cache clean --force