Node.js (via nvm), yarn and pnpm (node)

Installs Node.js, nvm, yarn, pnpm, and needed dependencies.

Example Usage

"features": {
    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/node:1": {}
}

Options

Options Id	Description	Type	Default Value
version	Select or enter a Node.js version to install	string	lts
nodeGypDependencies	Install dependencies to compile native node modules (node-gyp)?	boolean	true
nvmInstallPath	The path where NVM will be installed.	string	/usr/local/share/nvm
nvmVersion	Version of NVM to install.	string	latest

Customizations

VS Code Extensions

• dbaeumer.vscode-eslint

Using nvm from postCreateCommand or another lifecycle command

Certain operations like postCreateCommand run non-interactive, non-login shells. Unfortunately, nvm is really particular that it needs to be "sourced" before it is used, which can only happen automatically with interactive and/or login shells. Fortunately, this is easy to work around:

Just can source the nvm startup script before using it:

"postCreateCommand": ". ${NVM_DIR}/nvm.sh && nvm install --lts"

Note that typically the default shell in these cases is sh not bash, so use . ${NVM_DIR}/nvm.sh instead of source ${NVM_DIR}/nvm.sh.

Alternatively, you can start up an interactive shell which will in turn source nvm:

"postCreateCommand": "bash -i -c 'nvm install --lts'"

OS Support

This Feature should work on recent versions of Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions with the apt package manager installed.

bash is required to execute the install.sh script.

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