Cannot run node: No such file or directory

Question

I execute mvn clean install inside a docker container from image maven:3-alpine to build the application. In the pom.xml I make use of the frontend-maven-plugin because I need to install node and npm and then run npm install to build the frontend (angular).

 <plugin>
        <groupId>com.github.eirslett</groupId>
        <artifactId>frontend-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.9.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <nodeVersion>v12.16.1</nodeVersion>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>install node and npm</id>
            <goals>
              <goal>install-node-and-npm</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
          </execution>
          <execution>
            <id>npm install</id>
            <goals>
              <goal>npm</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
            <configuration>
              <arguments>install</arguments>
              <installDirectory>./</installDirectory>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
          <execution>
            <id>ng build</id>
            <goals>
              <goal>npm</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>compile</phase>
            <configuration>
              <arguments>run-script build</arguments>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>

Node and npm will be installed correctly but when it runs npm install it returns an error: Failed to run task: 'npm install' failed. java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/myProject/node/node" (in directory "/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/myProject"): error=2, No such file or directory -> [Help 1]

If I enter into the container (docker exec) and try to run manually npm install it gives me again the same error. When I check if node is correctly installed then I see the file /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/myProject/node/node is there but when I try to run node from inside the /node directory myself, let's say node -v it says me again No such file or directory. I don't understand why it is happening, because node is there!! The current user has also the right to execute this file.

I did some search about the problem, some people say that installing node on ubuntu in this way is not the correct way but that happens only in my container. If I try the same on my local machine (it is also an ubuntu) then node works.

Answer 1

I have encountered the same issue. Apparently alpine is not working well with nodejs binary. There seem to be some workarounds thou https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin/issues/633.