Ansible Role: Node.js

Ansible role that installs on linux Node.js, npm and optionally does basic npm configuration.

Features

• ✔️ Installing Node.js
  • You can define which version should be installed
  • Double-check that the newest version of npm is installed
• ✔️ npm configuration
  • Set global registry for an user
  • Set prefix for an user
  • Set default scope for an user
  • Configure scopes for an user
• ✔️ Installing global npm packages that you wish
• ✔️ Making sure that nodejs alias is available
• ✔️ Tested with Molecule Verify

Supported Platforms

• ✔️ Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)
• ✔️ Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)
• ✔️ Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal)
• ✔️ CentOS 7
• ✔️ CentOS 8

Requirements

None

Role Variables

Variable	Description	Default Value
nodejs_version	Version of Node.js to be installed	14
nodejs_npm_install_globally	List of npm packages that should be installed globally	[]
nodejs_npm_config	List on npm configurations - See in section How to configure npm	[]

How to configure npm

nodejs_npm_config must be an array of objects. Here is how each object should look like:

Property	Description	Required
user	User (one npm config per user)	Yes
prefix	npm prefix	No
registry	npm registry URL	No
scopes	List of scopes. Each scope must have name (without @) and registry. Look at playbook examples below.	No
default_scope	Default scope	No

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

1. The simplest one

   ---
   - hosts: all
     roles:
       - marverix.nodejs
   

2. Install globally mocha and eslint

   ---
   - hosts: all
     roles:
       - role: marverix.nodejs
         vars:
           nodejs_npm_install_globally:
             - mocha
             - eslint

3. Set npm registry for user root, set prefix, configure scopes and set default scope:

   ---
   - hosts: all
     roles:
       - role: marverix.nodejs
         vars:
           nodejs_npm_config:
             - user: root
               prefix: /home/root/.node
               registry: https://nexus.example.org/repository/npm/
               scopes:
                 - name: example-int
                   registry: https://nexus.example.org/repository/npm-int/
                 - name: example2-int
                   registry: https://nexus.example2.org/repository/npm-int/
               default_scope: example-int

   BTW: Here is good blog post how to setup Nexus as your npm registry: https://blog.sonatype.com/using-nexus-3-as-your-repository-part-2-npm-packages

License

ISC