[Nix-dev] Node.JS package and build inputs

[Shea Levy]

Hi Sander,

Sounds good to me, such a patch would definitely be welcome. If the packages you're adding are normally installed via npm, though, you may want to check out npm2nix.

Thanks,
Shea

On Feb 4, 2013, at 6:21, Sander van der Burg - EWI <S.vanderBurg at tudelft.nl> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Lately, I'm using Node.js and I wanted to create a package that requires some of the NodeJS modules that we have defined in node-packages.nix. However, when I add them to buildInputs, they cannot be found.
> 
> Of course, I could set the NODE_PATH environment variable in every package expression that I write, but I find it more elegant when we can just add these to buildInputs.
> 
> Enabling this functionality is not that hard. We just have to provide a setup hook with Node.js that adds packages with a node_modules subdirectory to NODE_PATH. I can implement that hook quite easily.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> -- Sander
> 
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