Installing Node, NPM (and then Grunt and Bower globally) in Vagrant

Question

I've been following this gist for installing a bunch of core dependencies for PHP development, but one that I do need and have not been able to get working as of yet is to install Node, NPM (and then Grunt and Bower globally) in Vagrant. I've seen answers like this one but it doesn't ever appear to complete the install (ie. I can't then install bower and grunt). There is a nodejs package through apt-get that does appear to install Node (and I can install NPM from there), but the version appears to be too old for Bower, so that's why I backtracked to a manual approach. Thanks for any help.

Update

Here is my bootstraph.sh file:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

echo ">>> Starting Install Script"

# Update
sudo apt-get update

# Install MySQL without prompt
sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password root'
sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password root'

echo ">>> Installing Base Items"

# Install base items
sudo apt-get install -y curl wget build-essential python-software-properties python g++ make

echo ">>> Adding PPA's and Installing Server Items"

# Add repo for latest PHP
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php5

# Add NodeJS repository
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:chris-lea/node.js

# Update Again
sudo apt-get update

# Install the Rest
sudo apt-get install -y php5 apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 nodejs php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-xdebug mysql-server

echo ">>> Configuring Server"

# xdebug Config
cat << EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/php5/mods-available/xdebug.ini
xdebug.scream=1
xdebug.cli_color=1
xdebug.show_local_vars=1
EOF

# Apache Config
sudo a2enmod rewrite
curl https://gist.github.com/fideloper/2710970/raw/5d7efd74628a1e3261707056604c99d7747fe37d/vhost.sh > vhost
sudo chmod guo+x vhost
sudo mv vhost /usr/local/bin

# Symlink /var/www to project web root
sudo rm -rf /var/www
sudo ln -s /vagrant/ /var/www

# PHP Config
sed -i "s/error_reporting = .*/error_reporting = E_ALL/" /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
sed -i "s/display_errors = .*/display_errors = On/" /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

sudo service apache2 restart

echo ">>> Installing NPM, Grunt CLI and Bower"

curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli bower

echo ">>> Installing Composer"

# Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Solution 1

Found the following that works well:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

echo "--- Let's get to work. Installing now. ---"

echo "--- Updating packages list ---"
sudo apt-get update

echo "--- MySQL time ---"
sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password root'
sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password root'

echo "--- Installing base packages ---"
sudo apt-get install -y vim curl python-software-properties

echo "--- Updating packages list ---"
sudo apt-get update

echo "--- We want the bleeding edge of PHP ---"
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php5

echo "--- Updating packages list ---"
sudo apt-get update

echo "--- Installing PHP-specific packages ---"
sudo apt-get install -y php5 apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-curl php5-gd php5-mcrypt mysql-server-5.5 php5-mysql git-core

echo "--- Installing and configuring Xdebug ---"
sudo apt-get install -y php5-xdebug

cat << EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/php5/mods-available/xdebug.ini
xdebug.scream=1
xdebug.cli_color=1
xdebug.show_local_vars=1
EOF

echo "--- Installing node.js ---"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y  python g++ make
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y  nodejs

echo "--- Installing Ruby ---"
\curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm
rvm requirements
rvm install ruby
rvm use ruby --default
rvm rubygems current

echo "--- Enabling mod-rewrite ---"
sudo a2enmod rewrite

echo "--- Setting document root ---"
sudo rm -rf /var/www
sudo ln -fs /vagrant/public /var/www


echo "--- Turn on errors ---"
sed -i "s/error_reporting = .*/error_reporting = E_ALL/" /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
sed -i "s/display_errors = .*/display_errors = On/" /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

sed -i 's/AllowOverride None/AllowOverride All/' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

echo "--- Restarting Apache ---"
sudo service apache2 restart

echo "--- Install Composer (PHP package manager) ---"
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

# Laravel stuff here, if you want

echo "--- All done, enjoy! :) ---"

Source: https://github.com/JeffreyWay/Vagrant-Setup

Solution 2

We use n to manage node.js versioning on both our Vagrant VMs and cloud boxes. We are using Ansible to manage the installation but it can easily be achieved using bash, something like:

# Install n
n_directory='/opt/n'
git clone https://github.com/visionmedia/n.git $n_directory
cd $n_directory
make install

# Install node.js/npm using n
node_version='0.10.24'
n $node_version

# Install the global dependencies
npm install -g grunt-cli bower

This relies on n and npm being available on $PATH.