Running things on Golem is really hard, which is a thing that is agreed upon by most members. This is a solution for uploading dependencies without the use of Docker. Abstracting & making things high-level is essential for adoption, so hopefully this can be useful for someone. We will upload our node_modules directory to the provider directly, and have the provider extract the contents so that it can use the modules. This is also faster than re-building everytime you need a new module, so even if you understand how it works you may have some interest in implementing this into your workflow.
First, make sure that you have a node_modules directory in your local directory. Otherwise do this on Windows: Right click > New > Folder
Then install your dependencies. In this example, we will run npm install node-emoji. Make sure that it gets installed in the node_modules directory.
We need to install archiver for ourselves to zip the file with our zip.js script. Run npm install archiver
Run node zip.js to zip your node_modules directory.
The provider will run npm install extract-zip -g to install a tool to extract the contents. This is not possible to run on default on Windows, but you don't have to - only the provider has to. It will also extract with this command, but again, you don't have to run this: extract-zip node_modules.zip
Start your yagna daemon: yagna service run
Enable the daemon as a requestor: yagna payment init --sender
Set your YAGNA_APPKEY: set YAGNA_APPKEY=your-32-char-app-key (found with yagna app-key list)
Install yajsapi: npm install yajsapi
Run node requestor.js
Building (optional)
$ docker build -t easyyagnajs:latest .
$ gvmkit-build easyyagnajs:latest
$ gvmkit-build easyyagnajs:latest --push
Copy the hash & swap it out on this line.