Docker Compose gulp is not found in $PATH - node.js

I have just started learning docker-compose and I am using a nodejs image. I want to install gulp to create some tasks and have one of them working on the background.
When I run: docker-compose run --rm -d server gulp watch-less
I get this error: ERROR: oci runtime error: container_linux.go:247: starting container process caused "exec: \"gulp\": executable file not found in $PATH"
Here are my file:
# Dockerfile
FROM node:6.10.2
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY package.json /usr/src/app
RUN npm install --quiet
COPY . /usr/src/app
CMD ["npm", "start"]
# docker-compose.yml
version: "2"
services:
server:
build: .
ports:
- "5000:5000"
volumes:
- ./:/usr/src/app
I also have a .dockerignore to ignore the node_modules folder and the npm-debug.log
EDIT:
When I run docker-compose run --rm server npm install package-name I don't have any problem and the package is installed.

Try adding gulp install in Dockerfile:
# Dockerfile
FROM node:6.10.2
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
RUN npm install -g gulp
COPY package.json /usr/src/app
RUN npm install --quiet
COPY . /usr/src/app
CMD ["npm", "start"]

I have found a solution that works but maybe is not the best solution. I have created an script that runs a gulp task on the package.json and if I run:
docker-compose run --rm server npm run gulp_task it works and does what it has to do.

I find that just referencing gulp via
./node_modules/.bin/gulp
instead of directly works fine. ./node_modules/.bin isn't in the path by default. Another option would be to add that dir to the PATH.

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ENV PATH /app/node_modules/.bin:$PATH
to :
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Edit-01:
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I'm trying to get docker-compose working on my Windows 8 box. I have the following docker-compose file
version: '3'
services:
testweb:
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It may be because you set the working directory to /app in your docker-compose file, but your package.json is in /usr/app. So the container runs npm run install from the wrong directory.
For a docker container to stay up you need to have a running process. In this case its the command npm start which will keep running as long as the container is up. So you need to have a cmd or Entrypoint that will start a running process. Please try something like this. Let me know if you have any questions
FROM node:7.7.2-alpine
WORKDIR /usr/app
RUN apk update && apk add postgresql
COPY package.json .
RUN npm install --quiet
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EXPOSE 8080
CMD [ "npm", "start" ]
Put file docker-compose.yml in project/app directory.
Then run docker compose up in project/app directory.
reference: https://forums.docker.com/t/use-docker-compose-in-get-started-tutorial-solved/129415

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I have issues where gulp is not making any files. It says finished, but no file is being created.
If I log in to my docker instance using:
docker exec -t -i myservice-service /bin/bash
and if I run the gulp command, then it creates it properly
Then all the files defined in the gulpfile.js are created. In other words, public/dist/ is populated with the main.js and other css files.
This is my Dockerfile.
FROM node:9
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/logs
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
# GULP Installation
RUN npm install -g gulp
RUN npm install gulp
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COPY .npmrc /usr/src/app/
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COPY . /usr/src/app
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USER node
EXPOSE 3000
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version: "3"
services:
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container_name: myservice-service
volumes:
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When I run it like that, it does not create any files. I get the same output on the screen, when I run the command manually.
I have spent hours trying to make it work, I tried with setting permissions and what not, but it just does not work.
My expectation was to have public/dist/ populated with files.
Any help is appreciated.
UPDATE. It works, but I have doubts:
I manage to make it work by using command inside the composerfile itself.
So in my case:
command: bash -c "gulp && nodemon --delay 2 ./bin/www"
In my reasoning, gulp should be done inside the Dockerfile itself, not on the composer files. But then again, it is out of my scope of knowledge.
The Dockerfile is run at build time and will COPY all the files in your local directory into the container, then run gulp and create any files.
You then mount the local folder over the docker containers file system, pretty much overwriting what was done in the docker file with the original files, as gulp ran on the files in the container, it did not effect the original files so you are undoing the changes.
The solutions are either to do as as you have mentioned in your question (add it to the command in docker-compose.yml or run it via docker-compose exec) or write a custom entrypoint script that will run gulp and then the command, something like:
bin/entrypoint.sh
#!/bin/sh
gulp
exec "$#"
Dockerfile
FROM node:9
COPY bin/entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
RUN chmod 755 /entrypoint.sh
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/logs
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
# GULP Installation
RUN npm install -g gulp
RUN npm install gulp
COPY package*.json /usr/src/app/
COPY .npmrc /usr/src/app/
RUN cd /usr/src/app/ && npm install && npm install -g nodemon
COPY . /usr/src/app
RUN chown -R node:node /usr/src/app && chown -R node:node /usr/src/logs
USER node
EXPOSE 3000
ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
CMD ["npm", "run-script", "start" ]
This will make your build a little less predictable though as it will run gulp each time the container starts (e.g. after every deployment) if you use the same Dockerfile in dev and production.

New package.json packages are not showing in Docker container

I am using Docker with Docker Compose and these are my files:
#DOCKERFILE
FROM mhart/alpine-node
# Create app directory
RUN mkdir -p /home/app
# Bundle app soure
COPY . /home/app
# From now on we work in /home/app
WORKDIR /home/app
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RUN echo -e 'http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main\nhttp://dl-
cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community\nhttp://dl-
cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing' > /etc/apk/repositories \
&& apk add --no-cache yarn \
&& yarn
EXPOSE 8080
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app:
build: .
command: yarn start:dev
environment:
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ports:
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The reason why I am using the volumes is because nodemon would not work without .:/home/app, but if the node modules are not installed in the host then it will fail, reason why I need /home/app/node_modules. I suspect this could be the cause of my error, but I am not sure how to circumvent that.
I solved this by moving my src code inside an src directory.
This means my docker-compose.yml file now looks like this:
app:
build: .
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Since I am not mounting the whole dir with the node_modules, new ones seem to be installed correctly.
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#DOCKERFILE
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RUN mkdir -p /home/app
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COPY package.json /home/app
RUN npm install
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RUN echo -e 'http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main\nhttp://dl-
cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community\nhttp://dl-
cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing' > /etc/apk/repositories \
&& apk add --no-cache yarn \
&& yarn
EXPOSE 8080
If there is any new dependency registers in package.json, it should be installed when the docker build command is invoked.

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