That's also a good solution I think. One of the main advantages of using containers though is real portability. This means in theory you could just push your container in development into production without too much hassle and making administrators nervous :) That's not the same level of portability a full VM would give you.

Admittedly this is more of a discussion about containers and security than npm itself but I'm interested in discovering the options out there. I may attempt to move all my stuff to containers for a bit and write about my findings.

I have found out the hard way that a `rm -rf /*` will delete the contents of a `/vagrant/` file...

Huzzah for git.