provision: Use NVM to install node and npm.

NVM takes a specific node version and installs the node package and
a corresponding compatible npm package.

We use it in a somewhat hackish way to install node/npm globally with
a pinned version, since that's how we actually want to consume node in
our development environment.

Other details:
- Travis CI now is configured to use the version of node installed by
provision; the easiest way to do this was to sabotage the existing node
installation.
- jsdom is upgraded to a current version, which both requires recent
node and also is required for the tests to pass with recent node.
This fixes running the node tests on Xenial.

Fixes #1498.

[tweaked by tabbott]

.travis.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ dist: trusty
 before_install:
    - nvm install 0.10
 install:
+  # Disable Travis CI's built-in NVM installation
+  - mv ~/.nvm ~/.travis-nvm-disabled
   - pip install coveralls
   - tools/travis/setup-$TEST_SUITE
   - tools/clean-venv-cache --travis

docs/install-generic-unix-dev.md

@@ -293,13 +293,10 @@ if [ $(uname) = "OpenBSD" ]; then sudo cp ./puppet/zulip/files/postgresql/zulip_
 ./tools/setup/postgres-init-test-db
 ./tools/do-destroy-rebuild-test-database
 ./manage.py compilemessages
+sudo ./tools/setup/install-node
 npm install
 ```
 
-If `npm install` fails, the issue may be that you need a newer version
-of `npm`.  You can use `npm install -g npm` to update your version of
-`npm` and try again.
-
 To start the development server:
 
 ```

package.json

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "istanbul": "0.4.0",
-    "jsdom": "0.5.7",
+    "jsdom": "9.4.1",
     "xmlhttprequest": "1.5.0",
     "nwmatcher": "1.3.6",
     "htmlparser2": "3.8.3",

scripts/setup/node-wrapper

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+export NVM_DIR="/usr/local/nvm"
+[ -e "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
+node "$@"

scripts/setup/npm-wrapper

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+export NVM_DIR="/usr/local/nvm"
+[ -e "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
+npm "$@"

tools/provision.py

@@ -25,10 +25,8 @@ SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS = {
     ],
 }
 
-NPM_VERSION = '3.9.3'
 PY2_VENV_PATH = "/srv/zulip-venv"
 PY3_VENV_PATH = "/srv/zulip-py3-venv"
-TRAVIS_NODE_PATH = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], 'node')
 VAR_DIR_PATH = os.path.join(ZULIP_PATH, 'var')
 LOG_DIR_PATH = os.path.join(VAR_DIR_PATH, 'log')
 UPLOAD_DIR_PATH = os.path.join(VAR_DIR_PATH, 'uploads')
@@ -81,11 +79,9 @@ UBUNTU_COMMON_APT_DEPENDENCIES = [
     "rabbitmq-server",
     "redis-server",
     "hunspell-en-us",
-    "nodejs",
-    "nodejs-legacy",
     "supervisor",
     "git",
-    "npm",
+    "libssl-dev",
     "yui-compressor",
     "wget",
     "ca-certificates",      # Explicit dependency in case e.g. wget is already installed
@@ -120,29 +116,6 @@ REPO_STOPWORDS_PATH = os.path.join(
 
 LOUD = dict(_out=sys.stdout, _err=sys.stderr)
 
-def install_npm():
-    # type: () -> None
-    if not TRAVIS:
-        if subprocess_text_output(['npm', '--version']) != NPM_VERSION:
-            run(["sudo", "npm", "install", "-g", "npm@{}".format(NPM_VERSION)])
-
-        return
-
-    run(['mkdir', '-p', TRAVIS_NODE_PATH])
-
-    npm_exe = os.path.join(TRAVIS_NODE_PATH, 'bin', 'npm')
-    travis_npm = subprocess_text_output(['which', 'npm'])
-    if os.path.exists(npm_exe):
-        run(['sudo', 'ln', '-sf', npm_exe, travis_npm])
-
-    version = subprocess_text_output(['npm', '--version'])
-    if os.path.exists(npm_exe) and version == NPM_VERSION:
-        print("Using cached npm")
-        return
-
-    run(["npm", "install", "-g", "--prefix", TRAVIS_NODE_PATH, "npm@{}".format(NPM_VERSION)])
-    run(['sudo', 'ln', '-sf', npm_exe, travis_npm])
-
 
 def main():
     # type: () -> int
@@ -224,10 +197,12 @@ def main():
         run(["tools/setup/postgres-init-test-db"])
         run(["tools/do-destroy-rebuild-test-database"])
         run(["python", "./manage.py", "compilemessages"])
-    # Install the pinned version of npm.
-    install_npm()
-    # Run npm install last because it can be flaky, and that way one
-    # only needs to rerun `npm install` to fix the installation.
+
+    # Here we install nvm, node, and npm.
+    run(["sudo", "tools/setup/install-node"])
+
+    # This is a wrapper around `npm install`, which we run last since
+    # it can often fail due to network issues beyond our control.
     try:
         setup_node_modules()
     except subprocess.CalledProcessError:

tools/setup/install-node

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -e
+
+ZULIP_PATH=$(dirname "$0")
+export NVM_DIR=/usr/local/nvm
+if ! [ -e "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ]; then
+    wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.0/install.sh | bash
+fi
+
+source "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
+node_version=6.6.0
+nvm install "$node_version" && nvm alias default "$node_version"
+
+# Fix messed-up uid=500 and group write bits produced by nvm
+n=$(which node)
+n=${n%/bin/node}
+chown -R root:root "$n"
+chmod -R go-w "$n"
+
+# Install node and npm wrappers to /usr/local/bin
+cp "$ZULIP_PATH/../../scripts/setup/node-wrapper" /usr/local/bin/node
+cp "$ZULIP_PATH/../../scripts/setup/npm-wrapper" /usr/local/bin/npm

tools/test-js-with-node

@@ -3,11 +3,10 @@ set -e
 
 cd "$(dirname "$0")"/..
 
-export NODE_PATH=/usr/lib/nodejs:static
+export NODE_PATH=static
 export PATH=$PATH:node_modules/.bin
 
 INDEX_JS=frontend_tests/zjsunit/index.js
-NODEJS=$(which nodejs || which node)
 ret=0
 
 if [ "$1" = "cover" ]; then
@@ -26,7 +25,7 @@ elif [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" ]; then
 else
   # Normal testing, no coverage analysis.
   # Run the index.js test runner, which runs all the other tests.
-  "$NODEJS" --stack-trace-limit=100 "$INDEX_JS" $@ || ret=1;
+  node --stack-trace-limit=100 "$INDEX_JS" $@ || ret=1;
 fi
 
 if [ $ret = '0' ]; then