status-mobile/nix/global-node-packages/README.md

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# Abstract
The purpose of this folder is to allow some tools such as `react-native` to be installed globally through Nix instead of resorting to `npm install -g` (which is not allowed in a Nix environment). We get around that by using the [node2nix tool](https://github.com/svanderburg/node2nix).
## Inputs
The inputs are listed in `node-packages.json`.
## Generating the nix expressions
``` shell
node2nix --nodejs-10 --bypass-cache -i node-packages.json
```