containers

How to run npm install as non-root from a Docker container

Suppose you don’t want to install Node.js and npm on your local machine and already run your application in a Docker container. How do you install your dependencies from package.json? For deployment, the most common way is to create your own Docker image, where npm install is part of the Dockerfile. But what do you do on your development machine, where you don’t want to build a new image all the time and use the vanilla node image ?