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Solving MSB6003 Error for ASP.NET Core Docker Image Build

Trying to build a Linux Docker image for ASP.NET Core project with Typescript support leads to a build error "MSB6003: The specified task executable "node" could not be run". The reason is Linux. On Windows, Microsoft.TypeScript.MSBuild includes tsc.exe. On non-Windows platforms, such as in a Docker container, Microsoft.TypeScript.MSBuild does not include ts.exe and instead shells out to a Node for the TypeScript compiler. The official dotnet/sdk Docker images I think included Node at one point in the past, but they no longer include Node. You will either need to make or find a Docker image with both the dotnet-sdk and Node, or configure some multi-stage build involving the official Node image [ 1 ]. Ok, if I know the reason then I will solve it in a minute. I thought. It turned out to be a quest to install the actual version of Node. Official Microsoft's image for dotnet is based on Debian (12 at the moment for .NET 8.0). So, the straight forward way would be u