diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 3b5d1ffff0115fa45dccc6cec94667397459012d..2c73a3c0444d9936cde5fc67f02ba764725eb857 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 FROM node:12
 
+ENV HOME "/home/simplej"
+RUN mkdir -p ${HOME}
+WORKDIR ${HOME}
+
 ENV NODE_ENV "development"
-WORKDIR /home/simplej
+
 COPY . .
 
 # We do a development install because react-styleguidist is a dev dependency and we want to run tests