How to update/change a package.json in /app/code

[devtron]

Since I need to add some custom files in app/data, I need to include some other packages in my node app (package.json) that only lives in /app/code. But it is always overwritten after a restart so my question is how to persist the new packages in my package.json? What tricks are possible?

[girish]

@devtron Is this a custom app? Or some app from the App Store ?

[devtron]

@girish
From the AppStore

[nebulon]

Which app is this then? Custom node_modules have to be supported by the app or the package

[devtron]

@nebulon Directus

[girish]

I guess this is related to https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/9129/how-to-install-npm-packages-in-your-app/3 .

mm, so far , we haven't found a good way to do this. You want to install custom node modules for your extension, correct ?

[girish]

@devtron I don't know much about Directus extensions. But it looks like say https://github.com/dimitrov-adrian/directus-extension-searchsync is an extension ? Each extension has a package.json of it's own.

(If the above is correct...)

• You can then npm install in the extension's subdirectory
• Then, in /app/data/env.sh just add export NODE_PATH=/app/data/extensions/myext/node_modules and restart the app.

Would something like above work? NODE_PATH sets the search directory for node modules. You can even set multiple paths separated by colon.

[devtron]

I was able to run the scripts. I just needed to init them with npm init and add the packages in the package.json. Each of them has their own node_modules now. Thanks for your help

[girish]

Documented here - https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/directus/#custom-modules