microOS / Aeon setup for developing nodejs apps, how can I start webserver?

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Hi there, after watching the interesting video from @RBrownSUSE, where he finally answered some conceptional questions of microOS (at least for me), I deceided to make a new testride.
Right now I am struggling getting a nodejs webdev project up and running in distrobox without root permissions.
I installed nodejs18 and npm18 inside the distrobox and cloned my personal git repos on the drive.
When I try to start the webserver, it throws an error: Unable to obtain an available random port number!
When starting nodejs with elevated permissions, it works.

Is there a way assign ports from inside a distrobox without root permissions?

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You can try distrobox run -u $UID node main.js or with whatever your application name. It will create a new container running node.js as the current user and will then run the file in that container.