Running Ratel locally, instructions in git repo does not work

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Describe the bug

after running compose up, and opening the containers console, I try to run npm install --legacy-peer-deps --no-optional

but I get:

npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/app/package.json'
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/app/package.json'
npm WARN app No description
npm WARN app No repository field.
npm WARN app No README data
npm WARN app No license field.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

the same steps mentioned in the repo:
1 - Install Docker locally and VSCode.
2 - Install Docker extension, and Dev Containers extension in VsCode.
3 - Run docker-compose up in the path of this repository.
4 - Click on "Remote Explorer" on the side of your VSCode.
5 - In the Dropdown menu choose "Containers". It will display all running and stopped containers.
6 - Right click on "rate" or "ratel-dev-1" and click on "Attach to Container". In 1 minute or less, remote access is set up.
7 - When you see "container node:14.17.0..." in the left part of the footer of VsCode. Open the terminal and run npm cache clean --force and then npm install --legacy-peer-deps --no-optional.
8 - Finally run npm run start

on step 7 it fails

Expected behavior

install the dependencies and start the project

Screenshots

Environment

• OS: Windows 11
• GO (I din't edit, I just cloned the repo and started messing with docker)
• Version: latest

Additional context

[linear]

DGR-901 Running Ratel locally, instructions in git repo does not work

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Guys, if any of you have the same problem, you can run the docker file independiently, I had to do some changes to be able to run it correctly.

######
# Build Client
####################
FROM node:22.16.0-alpine AS client

RUN apk update && apk --no-cache --virtual build-dependencies add make git bash python3 gcc g++

# build package manifest layer
RUN mkdir -p /ratel/client
WORKDIR /ratel/client
COPY ./client/package.json /ratel/client
RUN npm install --legacy-peer-deps --no-optional

# copy all assets and build
COPY . /ratel
RUN npm run build:prod

######
# Build Server
####################
FROM golang:1.23.10-alpine3.22 AS server
ENV PATH="/go/bin:$PATH"


RUN apk update && apk add git bash
COPY . /ratel

WORKDIR /ratel
ENV CGO_ENABLED=0
COPY --from=client /ratel/client/build /ratel/client/build
# instal go-bindata
RUN go install github.com/go-bindata/go-bindata/...@v3.1.2
RUN chmod +x ./scripts/build.prod.sh # <-- I had to add execution permissions, but probaly you won't need this
RUN apk add --no-cache dos2unix  # <-- I'm on windows and I need this to be able to convert from windows newline to linux one
RUN dos2unix ./scripts/*.sh # <-- change the newlines in all the files
RUN bash ./scripts/build.prod.sh --server # <-- I had to add the "bash" command, without this I got file not found
######
# Final Image
####################

FROM alpine:latest AS final
RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates
RUN addgroup -g 1000 dgraph && \
    adduser -u 1000 -G dgraph -s /bin/sh -D dgraph
# copy server artifact w/ embedded client artifact (bindata) to final stage
COPY --from=server /ratel/build/ratel /usr/local/bin/dgraph-ratel
EXPOSE 8000
USER dgraph

CMD ["/usr/local/bin/dgraph-ratel"]

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