Updating Node.js on IBM Cloud Delivery Pipeline

update-nodejs-ibm-cloud.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Credit: http://gh-blog.mybluemix.net/blogs/cokeSchlumpf/rethink-it/posts/bluemix/node-buildpipeline.md?cm_sp=dw-bluemix-_-nospace-_-answers
# Paste the script below into IBM Cloud Delivery Pipeline Build process (shell script)
# Set your Node and NVM version:
export NODE_VERSION=8.9.3
export NVM_VERSION=0.33.8
export NVM_DIR=/home/pipeline/nvm

METEOR_HOME=.meteor/local
PATH=$METEOR_HOME/usr/bin:$METEOR_HOME/usr/lib/meteor/bin:$PATH

update_node() {
    npm config delete prefix \
      && curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v${NVM_VERSION}/install.sh | sh \
      && . $NVM_DIR/nvm.sh \
      && nvm install $NODE_VERSION \
      && nvm alias default $NODE_VERSION \
      && nvm use default \
      && node -v \
      && npm -v
    npm install
}

In your Build Stage on the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery Pipeline:

1. Create a 'Build' job
2. Choose Shell script
3. Paste the script above in
4. Update Node version in the script and then run

I can't believe that the highest version available today is 6.x... It really feels like if IBM had abandoned the service since the current node version (LTS and L) are way higher.

I assure you that is not the case. Just crazy growing pains... The team had to freeze the versions to prevent breaking existing pipelines. A new approach to managing this stuff is coming out shortly.

@skaegi The currently highest pre-installed version is reaching its end of life in April this year. Might be a nice deadline for the new approach to see a release 😉

I ran into the same problem of needing a newer version to compile. Here is the beginning of my npm build script that installs the version of node and npm I need.

#!/bin/bash
#install n module to $HOME/.npm-global/bin/n
export PREFIX=./
npm install -g n
ls -l $HOME/.npm-global/bin

#install node to ./node/8.9.3
export N_PREFIX=$PWD/node
$HOME/.npm-global/bin/n 8.9.3
ls -l $N_PREFIX/n/versions/node

#set node path
export PATH=$N_PREFIX/n/versions/node/8.9.3/bin:$PATH

#set npm version
npm install -g npm@5.6.0