Can I use a different version of Node in the IBM Bluemix DevOps Services build step npm builder type

Question

I am building an ember application and then packaging it into a WAR file for deployment to a liberty runtime.

The ember build process warns me that ember-cli will cease to work with node v0.10.29 and recommends using node 0.12.

Can I use a different version of Node in the: DevOps Services, build step 'npm' builder type?

Answer 1

v0.10.29 is the only version of node that exists on the build image. In order to use a different version the user must download it. Here is an example script of how to do that

#!/bin/bash
node_version=v0.12.7
install_name=node-v0.12.7-linux-x64
if [ ! -e $install_name.tar.gz ]; then
wget "http://nodejs.org/dist/$node_version/$install_name.tar.gz"
echo 'Untarring'
tar xf $install_name.tar.gz
fi
NODE_12_INSTALL_DIR=`pwd`/$install_name/bin
PATH=$NODE_12_INSTALL_DIR:$PATH
node -v

Answer 2

Hey @Hannah

just specify the needed version in your package.json as an engines property and you should be fine.