12 July 2017

Project Clarity – Learning to build an Angular JS App

I always wanted to learn more about Angular JS and I thought Project Clarity would be a great way to start. A couple of months back I tried to install npm, it failed and I did not bother to look at it and partly I was busy with other stuff.

Last couple of weeks I have been putting vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) into my Lab to prepare myself before going to Customer place for VIC + NSX POC. I was thinking, since there is a quick way of spinning up containers, why not spin up one to try Clarity. I was also trigged by a twitter post by Grant Orchard that it is very easy to start. Also I have been reading Cody posts on his Amazon Echo and vSphere application that he built using Clarity. Here we go.

I was pointed to https://vmware.github.io/clarity/get-started. If you look below, its really brief. Already, I know how to install git but I have totally no clue about npm.

A little google research on NPM and its node.js framework. Alright, cool!

So I reckon, I need a linux container to start off with. CentOS which closest to RHEL would be a good bet. That is after I failed with nimmis/apache-php5 image.

Now I tried centos image.

docker -H 192.168.120.127:2376 –tls run –name test12 –net=external01 -it centos /bin/bash

Everything looks OK until…

So far the steps that I took.

1) yum install git

2) yum install -y gcc-c++ make

3) curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | bash –

https://www.e2enetworks.com/help/knowledge-base/how-to-install-node-js-and-npm-on-centos/

4) yum install -y nodejs

5) git clone https://github.com/vmware/clarity-seed.git

6) npm install [This failed! You will need to go into the clarity-seed folder!!]

7) cd clarity-seed

8) npm install [Until I hit an error]

The npm installation takes awhile but I was thinking if it was successfully, I should commit this image into my Harbor registry. I was disappointed the built did not go successfully.

[Update]

OK. after some google search again, it was found out to be bzip2 related. Replace step 7 with below should work.

7) yum install -y bzip2

8) npm install

Some warnings but lets see.