Trying to build client-report

[brendanarnold]

I've got the latest pol.is build and am on the dev branch. I can't seem to get the client-report source to build into a container image. There seems to be a problem with webpack where a 'permission denied' error arises. I've emulated the build environment in the docker container to get more iinsight but it just seems to be a problem with outdated versions.

Am I missing a special flag or some other trick that will get it to build?

[brendanarnold]

FWIW here is what it took to get the Docker image to build for client-report ...

• Regenerate package-lock.json locally using NPM 6.9.2 to match the build environment in Docker
• Add the line RUN npm config set unset-perm true to the client-base image to get around a bug to do with uid in Alpine v11
• Move the COPYing of polis.config.js to above RUN npm install as client-report runs webpack off of a postinstall trigger

[metasoarous]

This is fantastic; Thanks @brendanarnold!

Would you please submit a PR with these changes (either in situ or in docs as appropriate)?

Thanks again!

[brendanarnold]

I've released a reference PR - the actual output is untested. See https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis/pull/1449/files