tildes/ansible/roles/nodejs/tasks/main.yml

---
- name: Add APT key for NodeSource Node.js repository
  apt_key:
    url: https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key

- name: Add NodeSource Node.js APT repository
  apt_repository:
    repo: deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x buster main

- name: Install Node.js
  apt:
    name: nodejs

- name: Install npm packages defined in package.json
  become_user: "{{ app_username }}"
  community.general.npm:
    path: "{{ app_dir }}"
    # --no-bin-links option is needed to prevent npm from creating symlinks in the .bin
    # directory, which doesn't work inside Vagrant on Windows
    no_bin_links: true
    # npm ci needs to be run, for a clean install, instead of npm install.
    # otherwise node_modules is never created/updated (Ansible bug?)
    ci: true