Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook - Second Edition

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The preceding code will install the Node.js package into your image. However, most times we only need to add our Node.js application and add Node.js as a dependency.

We can add simple Node.js scripts, as we explained in Adding data, scripts or configuration files, in Chapter 3, The Software Layer, with a recipe that just installs the JavaScript scripts in the root filesystem.

However, Node.js applications are usually built on modules, each one of them with its own license. We could create a Yocto recipe that uses the npm tool to install dependencies, but we would also need to manually trace all their different licenses.

The devtool command-line utility can do this for us automatically either installing from the npm registry ...