[HELP] Not been able to import external modules

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It is theoretically also possible with the docker image but much more messy as you have to mount each module you need separate. For “sugar-date” that would for example additionally be “sugar-core” as “sugar-'date” depends on it. The more complex the module you need the more modules that would be. So for it to work you would have to:

  1. npm install “sugar-date” (or whatever you want) in a folder (in this example it would be ~/whereever-you-have-the-module)
  2. Then start the n8n container kind of like this:
docker run -it --rm \
  --name n8n \
  -p 5678:5678 \
  -e NODE_FUNCTION_ALLOW_EXTERNAL=sugar-date \
  -v ~/.n8n:/root/.n8n \
  -v ~/whereever-you-have-the-module/node_modules/sugar-core:/usr/local/lib/node_modules/sugar-core \
  -v ~/whereever-you-have-the-module/node_modules/sugar-date:/usr/local/lib/node_modules/sugar-date \
  n8nio/n8n:0.51.0
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