Ah yeah, a Docker container would have absolutely stripped any benefits there. In that case, you're 100% right that a normal global install would be best.
Ideally, pre-baking that into the image would be the best case scenario... but if they couldn't have done that taking Bryan Hughes advice from his comment on this post and putting it into devDependencies. Combining that with npm ci usage would be great too, since npm ci just reads the predetermined dependencies in the package-lock.json and doesn't take compute time to resolve the dependency structure.
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Ah yeah, a Docker container would have absolutely stripped any benefits there. In that case, you're 100% right that a normal global install would be best.
Ideally, pre-baking that into the image would be the best case scenario... but if they couldn't have done that taking Bryan Hughes advice from his comment on this post and putting it into devDependencies. Combining that with
npm ciusage would be great too, sincenpm cijust reads the predetermined dependencies in the package-lock.json and doesn't take compute time to resolve the dependency structure.