This image is designed to supercede the legacy CircleCI Node.js image, circleci/node
.
cimg/node
is a Docker image created by CircleCI with continuous integration builds in mind.
Each tag contains a version of Node.js, npm
, yarn v1
, and any binaries and tools that are required for builds to complete successfully in a CircleCI environment.
This image can be used with the CircleCI docker
executor.
For example:
jobs:
build:
docker:
- image: cimg/node:12.16
steps:
- checkout
- run: node --version
In the above example, the CircleCI Node.js Docker image is used for the primary container.
More specifically, the tag 12.16
is used meaning the version of Node.js will be Node.js v12.16.x where 'x' is the latest patch release.
You can now use Node.js within the steps for this job.
This image contains the Node.js programming language and its package managers.
This includes npm
and yarn
.
This image has the following tagging scheme:
cimg/node:<node-version>
<node-version>
- The version of Node.js to use.
This can be a full SemVer point release (such as 10.16.3
), or just the minor release (such as 12.6
), or a version alias.
This Node.js image has two version aliases, "current" and "lts".
This aliases will always point to the latest "current" and latest "lts" releases that Node.js has as according to their website.
Keep in mind that using an alias tag will be less stable that specifying a full SemVer version.
If you use the minor release tag, it will automatically point to future patch updates as they are released by Node.js.
For example, the tag 12.6
points to Node.js v12.6.0 now, but when the next release comes out, it will point to Node.js v12.6.1.
Images can be built and run locally with this repository. This has the following requirements:
- local machine of Linux (Ubuntu tested) or macOS
- modern version of Bash (v4+)
- modern version of Docker Engine (v19.03+)
Fork this repository on GitHub.
When you get your clone URL, you'll want to add --recurse-submodules
to the clone command in order to populate the Git submodule contained in this repo.
It would look something like this:
git clone --recurse-submodules <my-clone-url>
If you missed this step and already cloned, you can just run git submodule update --recursive
to populate the submodule.
Then you can optionally add this repo as an upstream to your own:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/cimg-node.git
Clone the project with the following command so that you populate the submodule:
git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:CircleCI-Public/cimg-node.git
Dockerfiles can be generated for a specific Node.js version using the gen-dockerfiles.sh
script.
For example, to generate the Dockerfile for Node.js v12.16, you would run the following from the root of the repo:
./shared/gen-dockerfiles.sh 12.16.3=lts
The generated Dockerfile will be located at ./12.16/Dockefile
.
To build this image locally and try it out, you can run the following:
cd 12.16
docker build -t test/node:12.16.3 .
docker run -it test/node:12.16.3 bash
To build the Docker images locally as this repository does, you'll want to run the build-images.sh
script:
./build-images.sh
This would need to be run after generating the Dockerfiles first. When releasing proper images for CircleCI, this script is run from a CircleCI pipeline and not locally.
The individual scripts (above) can be used to create the correct files for an image, and then added to a new git branch, committed, etc. A release script is included to make this process easier. To make a proper release for this image, lets's use the fake Node version of Node v9.99, you would run the following from the repo root:
./shared/release.sh 9.99=alias
This will automatically create a new Git branch, generate the Dockerfile(s), stage the changes, commit them, and push them to GitHub.
The commit message will end with the string [release]
.
This string is used by CircleCI to know when to push images to Docker Hub.
"alias" would be "current" or "lts" depending on the version.
All that would need to be done after that is:
- wait for build to pass on CircleCI
- review the PR
- merge the PR
The master branch build will then publish a release.
How changes are incorporated into this image depends on where they come from.
build scripts - Changes within the ./shared
submodule happen in its own repository.
For those changes to affect this image, the submodule needs to be updated.
Typically like this:
cd shared
git pull
cd ..
git add shared
git commit -m "Updating submodule for foo."
parent image - By design, when changes happen to a parent image, they don't appear in existing Node.js images. This is to aid in "determinism" and prevent breaking customer builds. New Node.js images will automatically pick up the changes.
If you really want to publish changes from a parent image into the Node.js image, you have to build a specific image version as if it was a new image. This will create a new Dockerfile and once published, a new image.
Node specific changes - Editing the Dockerfile.template
file in this repo is how to modify the Node.js image specifically.
Don't forget that to see any of these changes locally, the gen-dockerfiles.sh
script will need to be run again (see above).
We encourage issues to and pull requests against this repository however, in order to value your time, here are some things to consider:
- We won't include just anything in this image. In order for us to add a tool within the Node.js image, it has to be something that is maintained and useful to a large number of Node developers. Every tool added makes the image larger and slower for all users so being thorough on what goes in the image will benefit everyone.
- PRs are welcome. If you have a PR that will potentially take a large amount of time to make, it will be better to open an issue to discuss it first to make sure it's something worth investing the time in.
- Issues should be to report bugs or request additional/removal of tools in this image. For help with images, please visit CircleCI Discuss.
CircleCI Docs - The official CircleCI Documentation website.
CircleCI Configuration Reference - From CircleCI Docs, the configuration reference page is one of the most useful pages we have.
It will list all of the keys and values supported in .circleci/config.yml
.
Docker Docs - For simple projects this won't be needed but if you want to dive deeper into learning Docker, this is a great resource.
This repository is licensed under the MIT license. The license can be found here.