On 27-07-2022 02:25, jgart wrote:
Should we make a guide for developing with js and guix?For example, how does a js developer use `guix shell` to load a js lib like node-rimraf in a repl currently?
This one is not in Guix, so I'll replace it by node-mersenne.
There's currently no doc for getting started with that iirc
Let's try not doing anything special:
$ guix shell node-mersenne node
$ node
> mersenne = require('mersenne')
{
MersenneTwister19937: [Function:think we need documentati
MersenneTwister19937],
rand: [Function (anonymous)], seed: [Function (anonymous)], seed_array: [Function (anonymous)] } > mersenne.MersenneTwister19937 [Function: MersenneTwister19937]No setup appears to be required beyond simply installing node and the node library and using node's 'require' function, so I don't think we need documentation for this in Guix (I'm assuming that node documents 'require'), though I suppose we could have it for completeness (*). If doing that is considered a good thing, it seems to me that it should then also be done for Guile, Python, C/C++/etc, Minetest, Vim, ...
Greetings, Maxime.(*) E.g., when looking for the 'require' function, there was initially some slight confusion with 'require' accepting relative and absolute file names so I was fearing it might need to be passed $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT/lib/node_modules, but this turned out to be unfounded.
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