From ca3bf8e83e2a741cdfa3aab5db6b9ee46d31176d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Soam Vasani <soamvasani@platform9.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:19:42 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Symlink user function's node_modules to server's node_modules
 (#133)

Fixes #132
---
 environments/nodejs/server.js | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/environments/nodejs/server.js b/environments/nodejs/server.js
index 4b3d83f0..591793d2 100644
--- a/environments/nodejs/server.js
+++ b/environments/nodejs/server.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 'use strict';
 
 const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
 const process = require('process');
 const express = require('express');
 const app = express();
@@ -18,6 +19,16 @@ if (!argv.port) {
     argv.port = 8888;
 }
 
+
+// Node resolves module paths according to a file's location. We load
+// the file from argv.codepath, but tell users to put dependencies in
+// the server's package.json; this means the function's dependencies
+// are in /usr/src/app/node_modules.  We could be smarter and have the
+// function deps in the right place in argv.codepath; but for now we
+// just symlink the function's node_modules to the server's
+// node_modules.
+fs.symlinkSync('/usr/src/app/node_modules', `${path.dirname(argv.codepath)}/node_modules`);
+
 // User function.  Starts out undefined.
 let userFunction;