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> Docker existing shouldn't be an excuse for npm behaving like this ;)

I don't care about the direction of causality, I just want the stupid thing to run on my computer and not pollute my home directory,and docker solves that and solves it well.

Edit: Although actually about the only time I'm touching node is to ship it in a container image for deployment on a cluster somewhere, which is even more compelling.

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There are much better tools for doing that, such as Guix profiles and nix-shell, which also happen to be better tools for making container images. Linux container images are a distribution mechanism that does not do anything to address package and dependency management other than shifting the problem somewhere else.

nix/guix are also good solutions, but they have a much higher learning curve than a Dockerfile; I would even be willing to suggest that docker is not the true best solution to any problem it solves, but in my experience it is the easiest solution to most of them

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