Running npm start fails for electron projects about docker-npm

[dagomar]

I think I am able to (partially) answer my own question. The electron application in ./node_modules/electron/dist/electron needs to have the /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 interpreter available, which it isn't in alpine (it cannot even be installed). So basically electron has requirements that aren't met by the docker builds in this repo. I tried experimenting with the debian container by adding requirements, but so far failed. I think this is pretty far outside the scope of this project, so I'm gonna close this ticket.

[dagomar]

Just leaving this here for future reference: electron needs a display server (obviously). So this might help next time I have a go at this:

http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-docker/

Could still be interesting to add this to the project if this works.