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DankestMemes
DankestMemes

Reputation: 153

Node version managing strategy with Maven

I am using NVM to manage my versions of NodeJS. I am trying to integrate it with Maven in a Jenkins job. The following script is executed before Maven runs. I don't think there is a way to pass in the NodeJS installation directory to Maven as an option argument. I believe nvm use exports the NodeJS installation directory to PATH, but I could be wrong.

#!/bin/sh -e
source /mounts/dev/jenkins/.nvm/nvm.sh
nvm alias default node
nvm use --delete-prefix v4.2.0 --silent

The reason why Maven needs NodeJS is because of the yeoman-maven-plugin, which, by default, uses the globally installed version of NodeJS. I know that there is a NodeJS plugin for Jenkins that works, but I don't think using that is optimal.

I think it's possible to integrate NVM into a Jenkins Maven job, but I may be going about it the wrong way. Does anyone have any ideas on a different NVM approach?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7151

Answers (1)

DankestMemes
DankestMemes

Reputation: 153

Instead of trying to integrate NVM with Maven, we decided to abandon the yeoman-maven-plugin, and instead went with the frontend-maven-plugin. The frontend-maven-plugin allows for local Node and NPM installations, along with other build tools like Gulp and Grunt. The only change that needed to be made was to the pom.xml. Plus, there is no more need for additional scripting in Jenkins.

Usage example for installing Node and NPM

<plugin>
  ...
  <execution>
      <!-- optional: you don't really need execution ids,
      but it looks nice in your build log. -->
      <id>install node and npm</id>
      <goals>
          <goal>install-node-and-npm</goal>
      </goals>
      <!-- optional: default phase is "generate-resources" -->
      <phase>generate-resources</phase>
  </execution>
  <configuration>
      <nodeVersion>v0.10.18</nodeVersion>
      <npmVersion>1.3.8</npmVersion>
      <!-- optional: where to download node and npm from. Defaults to https://nodejs.org/dist/ -->
      <downloadRoot>http://myproxy.example.org/nodejs/dist/</downloadRoot>
      <!-- optional: where to install node and npm. Defaults to the working directory -->
      <installDirectory>target</installDirectory>
   </configuration>
</plugin>

More information about the plugin can be found here.

Upvotes: 2

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