Im building out a docker dev environment and moving a bunch of existing apps into docker containers.
I have a an old react app which compiles using webpack, it seems no matter what I do in the docker compose file that it still remains unreachable from my host machine (MacOS)
running this works successfully, but not from the host
$ docker exec -it <container id> /bin/sh
# curl localhost:8080
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
...
</html>
Dockerfile
# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
FROM node:16.16.0-buster as base
WORKDIR /app
ENV PATH /app/node_modules/.bin:$PATH
COPY package.json ./
COPY yarn.lock ./
COPY webpack.common.js ./
## import prod, because after install the build script tests if it can compile successfully
COPY webpack.prod.js ./
COPY . ./
RUN yarn install
EXPOSE 8080
FROM base as dev
CMD ["yarn", "run", "dev"]
Option 1) Doesnt Work
version: '3.8'
services:
backbone-ui:
network_mode: host
build:
context: .
container_name: backbone-ui
ports:
- target: 8080
host_ip: 127.0.0.1
published: 8080
protocol: http
mode: host
volumes:
- ./:/app
command: yarn run dev
Option 2) Doesnt Work
version: '3.8'
services:
backbone-ui:
network_mode: host
build:
context: .
container_name: backbone-ui
ports:
- 8080:8080
volumes:
- ./:/app
command: yarn run dev
Option 3) Doesnt Work
version: '3.8'
services:
backbone-ui:
build:
context: .
container_name: backbone-ui
ports:
- 8080:8080
volumes:
- ./:/app
command: yarn run dev
Failed Attempt
Dockerfile (paired with Option 2 compose.yml)
# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
FROM node:16.16.0-buster as base
WORKDIR /app
ENV PATH /app/node_modules/.bin:$PATH
COPY package.json ./
COPY yarn.lock ./
COPY webpack.common.js ./
COPY webpack.prod.js ./
COPY . ./
RUN yarn install
FROM base as dev
EXPOSE 8080
CMD ["yarn", "run", "dev"]
Failed Attempt
updated package.json script
"dev": "webpack-dev-server --open --config webpack.dev.js --hot --host 0.0.0.0"
confirmed after rebuilding that the app is listening on 0.0.0.0:8080, but failed to respond on the host
$ docker exec -it <container id> /bin/sh
# curl 0.0.0.0:8080
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
...
</html>
version: "1.0.0"
services:
########################################################################################################
############################################# VALIDLY #################################################
########################################################################################################
validly-studio:
build:
context: ./studio
dockerfile: Dockerfile
volumes:
- type: bind
source: ./studio
target: /app
- /app/node_modules
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- 3000:3000
networks:
- validly
networks:
validly:
above is my docker-compose.yml file
FROM node:16.14-alpine
# set working directory
WORKDIR /app
# install app dependencies
COPY package.json ./
COPY package-lock.json ./
RUN npm install
# add app
COPY . ./
# start app
CMD ["npm", "start"]
this is my Dockerfile.
docker builds the react app and it prompts me to goto localhost:3000 where the app is running. But when I goto localhost:3000. I shows connection refused.
In your Dockerfile you copy in folder App everything to app/
And in your docker-compose you map /app to /app/node_modules.
This will not work.
Choose 1 of the two, and my instinct (and many error in the past) tell me that you should build everything in Dockerfile, including copying node_modules, and don't touch it in docker-compose.
Dockerfile
Template Dockerfile for React: (this one with NextJS environment, which makes it only more complex)
# Dependencies Container
FROM node:lts-alpine3.12 AS deps
RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat
WORKDIR /app
# Here we create node_modules
COPY package.json ./
COPY package-lock.json ./
RUN npm install -g npm#7.24.0 --no-update-notifier
RUN npm --version
RUN npm ci --no-update-notifier
# Rebuild the source code only when needed
FROM node:lts-alpine3.12 AS builder
WORKDIR /app
COPY . .
# Here we copy node_modules from previous intermediate container
COPY --from=deps /app/node_modules ./node_modules
RUN npm install -g npm#7.24.0 --no-update-notifier
RUN npm --version
RUN node -v
RUN npm run build --no-update-notifier
# Production Image
FROM node:16-bullseye AS runner
WORKDIR /app
ENV NODE_ENV production
# Here we only copy. No building needed, keeps the image small.
COPY --from=builder /app/.next ./.next
COPY --from=builder /app/node_modules ./node_modules
COPY --from=builder /app/package.json ./package.json
COPY --from=builder /app/package-lock.json ./package-lock.json
RUN addgroup -gid 1001 nodejs
RUN adduser -uid 1002 nextjs
RUN adduser nextjs nodejs
RUN chown -R nextjs:nodejs /app/.next
USER nextjs
docker-compose.yml
Here a template docker-compose.yml using the above Dockerfile
version: "3.9"
services:
webshop:
build:
context: ./build
dockerfile: Dockerfile_webshop
image: mywebshop
restart: "no"
container_name: MyWebshop
command: ["npm", "start"]
As you see, no volumes needed.
I am using Docker 20.10.12 and docker-compose v2.2.3 and I want to enable hot reload in my react application, environment windows 11.
My Dockerfile
FROM node:alpine
WORKDIR /app
COPY ./package.json ./
COPY ./package-lock.json ./
RUN npm install
COPY ./ ./
CMD [ "npm", "run", "start" ]
My docker-compose.yml
version: "3"
services:
frontend:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile.dev
environment:
CHOKIDAR_USEPOLLING: "true"
volumes:
- /app/node_modules
- ./:/app
ports:
- 3000:3000
I've even tried to use this command docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v /app/node_modules -v "$(pwd):/app" sha256:c20d9ef0854b483 but it didn't work.
If you know how I can achieve this, you can help me.
Dockerfile
FROM node:latest AS builder
WORKDIR /app
COPY ./app/
COPY package.json ./
COPY package-lock.json ./
RUN npm install
COPY . ./
RUN npm run build
RUN npm install react-scripts#3.0.1 -g --silent
CMD ["npm", "run", "start"]
docker-compose
webapp:
container_name: webapp
build:
context: ..
dockerfile: app/Dockerfile
ports:
- "3000:3000"
I am trying to build a react project in docker. I can't understand why it can't find index.html? Should it work without nginx?
So it worked
docker-compose
webapp:
container_name: webapp
build:
context: ../zhyvedotnet.auctionthings.webapp
dockerfile: Dockerfile
ports:
- 4200:80
Dockerfile
FROM node:10-alpine as builder
COPY package.json package-lock.json ./
RUN npm install && mkdir /react-ui && mv ./node_modules ./react-ui
WORKDIR /react-ui
COPY . .
RUN npm run build
FROM nginx:alpine
COPY ./nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
RUN rm -rf /usr/share/nginx/html/*
COPY --from=builder /react-ui/build /usr/share/nginx/html
EXPOSE 3000 80
ENTRYPOINT ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]
nginx.conf
worker_processes 4;
events { worker_connections 1024; }
http {
server {
listen 80;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
location /appui {
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
}
}
I was wondering if anyone had any experience using create-react-app with docker. I was able to get it set up with a Dockerfile like:
from node
RUN mkdir /src
WORKDIR /src
ADD package.json /src/package.json
RUN npm install
EXPOSE 3000
CMD [ "npm", "start" ]
And then used a docker-compose file like:
app:
volumes:
- "./app:/src"
ports:
- "3000:3000"
- "35729:35729"
build: ./app
This allowed me to start up the container and view the app. However livereload didn't work when saving files in the mounted volume and webpack created several .json.gzip files in the src directory.
Any suggestions for getting this working correctly?
Yeah, as aholbreich mentioned, I'd use npm install / npm start locally on my machine for development, just because it's so easy. It's probably possible with docker-compose, mounting volumes etc. too, but I think it could be a bit fiddly to set up.
For deployment you can then very easily use a Dockerfile. Here's an example Dockerfile I'm using:
FROM node:6.9
# Create app directory
RUN mkdir -p /src/app
WORKDIR /src/app
# to make npm test run only once non-interactively
ENV CI=true
# Install app dependencies
COPY package.json /src/app/
RUN npm install && \
npm install -g pushstate-server
# Bundle app source
COPY . /src/app
# Build and optimize react app
RUN npm run build
EXPOSE 9000
# defined in package.json
CMD [ "npm", "run", "start:prod" ]
You need to add the start:prod option to your package.json:
"scripts": {
"start": "react-scripts start",
"start:prod": "pushstate-server build",
"build": "react-scripts build",
"test": "react-scripts test --env=jsdom",
"eject": "react-scripts eject"
},
You can run the tests on your CI service with:
docker run <image> npm test
There's nothing stopping you from running this docker container locally as well to make sure things work as expected.
I recently made a small project called hello-docker-react who just does what the op is looking for.
It's made with docker-compose, create-react-app, yarn, a node image, and a small entrypoint script.
Live reload work flawlessly and I haven't found any problems yet.
https://github.com/lopezator/hello-docker-react
here is good gide for this
https://mherman.org/blog/dockerizing-a-react-app/
for development
# base image
FROM node:9.6.1
# set working directory
RUN mkdir /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
# add `/usr/src/app/node_modules/.bin` to $PATH
ENV PATH /usr/src/app/node_modules/.bin:$PATH
# install and cache app dependencies
COPY package.json /usr/src/app/package.json
RUN npm install --silent
RUN npm install react-scripts#1.1.1 -g --silent
# start app
CMD ["npm", "start"]
for production
# build environment
FROM node:9.6.1 as builder
RUN mkdir /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
ENV PATH /usr/src/app/node_modules/.bin:$PATH
COPY package.json /usr/src/app/package.json
RUN npm install --silent
RUN npm install react-scripts#1.1.1 -g --silent
COPY . /usr/src/app
RUN npm run build
# production environment
FROM nginx:1.13.9-alpine
COPY --from=builder /usr/src/app/build /usr/share/nginx/html
EXPOSE 80
CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]
Not exactly a direct improvement of the author's code, but I was able to get a development environment working with very little code - and no direct dependency to node on my machine - like this:
docker-compose.yml
services:
node:
image: node:16
user: "node"
command: "npm start"
working_dir: /app
volumes:
- ./:/app
ports:
- 3000:3000
This way, you avoid creating docker images from a Dockerfile.
Usage is generally like this:
install dependencies before running: docker compose run node npm install
run development environment: docker compose up
install new dependencies: docker compose run node npm install [package name]
clean up docker instances created with compose run: docker compose rm
While using docker in development with create-react-app, i discovered that it is possible to override the webpackDevServer configuration by adding CHOKIDAR_USEPOLLING=1to your .env file. This will make the file watching work again. It even refreshes the browser page on the host! The only thing that i discovered is that it doesn't open up a webpage automatically.
I can also advise to add tty: true to your service to have your original console output back into your terminal. To remove the container name prefixes in the logs, you can run something like this after running docker-compose up -d:
docker-compose logs -f --tail=100 client | cut -f2 -d \"|\""
Running with CRA 4.0 and many dependencies
.dockerignore
.git
.gitignore
node_modules
build
Dockerfile.dev
FROM node:alpine
WORKDIR /app
COPY package.json /app
RUN yarn install
COPY . .
CMD ["yarn", "start"]
docker-compose.dev.yml
version: "3.8"
services:
print:
stdin_open: true
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile.dev
ports:
- "3000:3000"
volumes:
- ".:/app"
- "/app/node_modules"
Dockerfile.prod
FROM node:alpine as build
WORKDIR /app
COPY package.json /app
RUN yarn install
COPY . /app
RUN yarn run build
FROM nginx:stable-alpine
COPY ./nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
COPY --from=build /app/build /usr/share/nginx/html
docker-compose.prod.yml
version: "3.8"
services:
print:
stdin_open: true
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile.prod
ports:
- "80:80"
nginx.conf
server {
listen 80;
server_name frontend;
location / {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html;
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
}
To run
docker-compose.exe -f .\docker-compose.yml up --build
or
docker-compose.exe -f .\docker-compose.dev.yml up --build
Here is a simple (pure docker) solution without local installation of runtime (e.g. node):
cd /tmp
docker run -it --rm -v "$PWD":/app -w /app node yarn create react-app my-app
sudo chown -R $USER:root my-app/
cd my-app
nano docker-compose.yml # see docker-compose.yml below
docker compose up -d
docker-compose.yml:
services:
node:
image: node:16-alpine
environment:
- CHOKIDAR_USEPOLLING=true
- FAST_REFRESH=true
working_dir: /app
ports:
- '3000:3000'
command: "yarn start"
volumes:
- './:/app'
open localhost:3000 in your browser. Hot reload should work out of the box.