WIP: Node development on iPhone

this is just a dump of my commands and findings. It is not stable yet, still finding out things... keep you posted

Why even want this?

Just for fun, because I can. Practise with shell, if you have shell, you can do everything (except browsing the web for pages that use javascript).

How (basics)

install ish from app store
uname -a
where are the logs
is it persistant?

• iSH FAQ
• find packages to installnvim keeps on crashing, nothing in /var/loghow to scroll up with keyboard?how to reset to clean ish?

Alpine Package Keeper (apk)

apk add git
apk search nodejs-current

Editor: neovim

echo https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main > /etc/apk/repositoriesecho https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community >> /etc/apk/repositoriesapk updateapk upgradeapk add neovim

source

Usage

not all commands work: vsplit etc, keeps on crashing

nvim
escape key: ctrl-c
basic noevim commands

Node

latest is v14, v16 is there as 'current'
See https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/ for latest or specific version

vi /etc/apk/repositories

add:
https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/latests-stable/main
https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/latest-stable/community

apk upgrade

// need specific version because npm has newer versions

apk add node npm

SSH

Sources

• Install neovim on ishbasic neovim commands