Error Running Aurelia CLI in a Docker Container - dockerfile

Question

I'm trying to build a Docker container that has much of the tooling required for an Aurelia-based javascript project. I have Docker community edition version 17.03.1-ce-mac5 (16048) and the following Dockerfile:
FROM ubuntu:yakkety
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
RUN apt-get update -q && apt-get install -qy \
apt-utils \
git \
chromium-browser \
xvfb \
nodejs \
npm
RUN ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
RUN npm install -g aurelia-cli
WORKDIR /workdir
EXPOSE 9000
I run the command docker build -t maldrake/aurelia:v1 . to build the container, followed by
docker run --rm -it -P -v `pwd`:/workdir maldrake/aurelia:v1 /bin/bash
to shell into the docker container.
At that point, when I run au, I expect to see the usual output of the Aurelia CLI tool when run with no arguments, a list of the available commands and their function. Instead, I'm getting the following output:
root#11f3d17edfd5:/workdir# au
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/aurelia-cli/lib/resolve/index.js:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { let core = require('./lib/core');
^^^
SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode
at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:374:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
at Module.require (module.js:354:17)
at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/aurelia-cli/bin/aurelia-cli.js:3:17)
at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
root#11f3d17edfd5:/workdir#
The javascript error itself is easy enough to understand, and if I go look at that index.js file, it's true that there's no 'use strict' at the top. I can add it to that individual file, and that gets the Aurelia CLI running, far enough to create a new project, but then when I try to use other CLI commands, like au test, I run into the same error with other files that don't have use strict at the top. How should I be configuring my environment differently such that the CLI just works upon installation?
Node and npm versions are as follows:
root#11f3d17edfd5:/workdir# node -v
v4.2.6
root#11f3d17edfd5:/workdir# npm -v
3.5.2
I've searched via Stack Overflow and, more generally, with Google and haven't found a description of the same problem. That may well mean that I'm missing something facepalmingly obvious.

Answer 1

I opened this question using Aurelia CLI version 0.27.0. The issue was fixed in the just released version 0.28.0.
(edit) Well, partly fixed. I still wasn't able to get a build command to execute without a similar error. However, it seems that the underlying problem is an incompatibility with node 4.x. So, changing the build to pull from the node PPA (version 6.10.x) solved the problem in its entirety:
FROM ubuntu:yakkety
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
RUN apt-get update -q && apt-get install -qy \
apt-utils \
chromium-browser \
curl \
git \
xvfb
RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | bash -
RUN apt-get install -qy \
nodejs
RUN npm install -g aurelia-cli
WORKDIR /workdir
EXPOSE 9000