I'm trying to figure why Nodemon is not restarting from within docker when passing in an environment variable. It worked previously when I was not trying pass in an env variable and instead in my Dockerfile the final command was CMD ["npm", "run", "devNoClient"]
I can see Nodemon launching in the terminal but doesn't restart the server when I update a file.
Makefile
node_dev:
echo 'Starting Node dev server in Docker Container'
docker build -t node_dev .
docker run -it --env-file variables.env -p 8080:8080 node_dev
Dockerfile
WORKDIR /chord-app
# copy package.json into the container
COPY package.json /chord-app/
# install dependencies
RUN npm install
# Copy the current directory contents into the container at /chord-app
COPY . /chord-app/
# Make port 8080 available to the world outside this container
EXPOSE 8080
# Env is required to persist variable into built image.
# Docker run can now accept variable and it will be assigned here.
# default is run in dev mode
ENV run_mode_env=devNoClient
# Run the app when the container launches
# Due to variable, CMD syntax must change for this to work https://stackoverflow.com/a/40454758
CMD npm run $run_mode_env
package.json
"scripts": {
"devNoClient": "nodemon --exec babel-node src/server/start.js",
},
I realized it was not working because I don't have any binding volumes to my local machine when starting my docker image. So the container does not what files on my machine to watch for saves so it can restart the server with nodemon.
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I can't access my Vue app on localhost:8080 anymore after Dockerizing the app.
I have a Dockerfile with the following contents:
# Base the image off of the NodeJS image
FROM node
# Set the working directory to be the HOME directory
WORKDIR /root
# Install NPM dependencies early in the build process
COPY ./package.json /root
COPY ./package-lock.json /root
RUN npm install
# Specify what port will be available - necessary for VPC network
EXPOSE 8080
# Copy our application files to the image
COPY ./.browserslistrc /root
COPY ./.eslintrc.js /root
COPY ./.env /root
COPY ./babel.config.js /root
COPY ./README.md /root
COPY ./vue.config.js /root
COPY ./public /root/public
COPY ./src /root/src
# Start the container running our Node app
CMD ["npm", "run", "serve"]
(Before Dockerizing, npm run serve allowed me to access the Vue app through my web browser.)
Then I run the PS command docker build:
PS C:\Users\User\mealSocial-dev> docker build -t finalvue app
Sending build context to Docker daemon 126.8MB
Step 1/15 : FROM node
---> 448d0873ea84
[...]
Step 15/15 : CMD ["npm", "run", "serve", "--port", "\"8080\""]
---> Running in c4840f98e5dc
Removing intermediate container c4840f98e5dc
---> 904928fa859c
Successfully built 904928fa859c
Successfully tagged finalvue:latest
SECURITY WARNING: You are building a Docker image from Windows against a non-Windows Docker host. All files and directories added to build context will have '-rwxr-xr-x' permissions. It is recommended to double check and reset permissions for sensitive files and directories.
...Then docker run -p 8080:8080:
PS C:\Users\User\mealSocial-dev> docker run -p 8080:8080 finalvue
> meal-app#0.1.0 serve /root
> vue-cli-service serve
INFO Starting development server...
<s> [webpack.Progress] 0% compiling
[...]
DONE Compiled successfully in 8147ms11:39:59 AM
<s> [webpack.Progress] 100%
App running at:
- Local: http://localhost:8080/
It seems you are running Vue CLI inside a container.
Access the dev server via http://localhost:<your container's external mapped port>/
Note that the development build is not optimized.
To create a production build, run npm run build.
Despite it saying It seems you are running Vue CLI inside a container. Access the dev server via http://localhost:<your container's external mapped port>/, I get This page isn’t working. localhost didn’t send any data. ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE:
I'm EXPOSE-ing the port in the Dockerfile and adding the -p 8080:8080 tag when I run docker run. What am I missing?
from the comment section:
add --host 0.0.0.0 to npm run serve
or
add host: 0.0.0.0 to a config (./vue.config.js)
I created a simple VueJS app with a very basic configuration. I used the webpack configuration to do this.
vue init webpack app
I build this simple Dockerfile
FROM node:lts-alpine
# install simple http server for serving static content
RUN npm install -g http-server
# make the 'app' folder the current working directory
WORKDIR /app
# copy both 'package.json' and 'package-lock.json' (if available)
COPY package*.json ./
# install project dependencies
RUN npm install
# copy project files and folders to the current working directory (i.e. 'app' folder)
COPY . .
# build app for production with minification
RUN npm run build
EXPOSE 3838
CMD [ "http-server", "dist" ]
This app should run of a plattform which only listens to port 3838. Changing the Dockerfile to EXPOSE 3838 did not work unfortunately.
sudo docker run -it -p 3838:3838 vuetest
Starting up http-server, serving dist
Available on:
http://127.0.0.1:8080
The container runs, but stil on 8080.
I´m quite unfamiliar with both VueJS and deploying, so can anyone help me? I guess the configuration to listen to 8080 might be set in a different file and the Dockerfile ignores it.
Your application server runs by default on 8080
https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server
Use flag -p 3838 to serve on that port.
Docker is doing its job correctly, adjust in your CMD
CMD [ "http-server", "-p 3838", "dist" ]
You can try just use the port 8080 of the continer and map it to port 3838 of your host.
#Dockerfile: delete the line -> Expose 3838
#Command line : $ sudo docker run -it -p 3838:8080 vuetest
This is an option not to add more lines to the Dockerfile.
Bye
When passing environment during docker runtime, my environment variables are getting wrapped with quotes. How am I able to set an environment variable without having it quoted?
I set the environment like such; docker run server -e NODE_ENV=dev
Output from the command above:
node dist/server.js "NODE_ENV=dev"
Heres a snippet from my Dockerfile
FROM base AS release
# copy production node_modules
COPY --from=dependencies /root/app/prod_node_modules ./node_modules
# copy app sources
COPY . .
# expose port and define CMD
EXPOSE 3000
ENTRYPOINT ["npm", "run", "start:prod"]
First of all I think the sequence of your docker run command has a problem.
-e option should be before your docker image name, like this
docker run -e NODE_ENV=dev server
If its still not helping, then try --env-file option of docker run.
docker run --env-file /path/to/server.env server
In server.env
NODE_ENV=dev
I've created an image using this Docker file...
FROM node:8
# Create application directory
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
# Install application dependencies
# By only copying the package.json file here, we take advantage of cached Docker layers
COPY package.json ./
RUN npm install
# This will install dev dependencies as well.
# If dev dependencies have been set, use --only-production when deploying to production
# Bundle app source code
COPY . .
EXPOSE 3000
CMD ["node", "server.js"]
But when I run it using $ docker run -d --rm -p 3000:3000 62 I can't cUrl the API running inside the container from the Docker host (OS X) using curl http://localhost:3000/About
If I exec into the container I get a valid response from the API via cUrl. Looks like a Linux firewall in the container but I don't see one running.
any ideas?
Your node server is most likely not listening on all interfaces, make sure it binds to 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1
I have a project developed on nuxt js. Now I want to employ it with docker. But for some reason, I need build it on my local machine of mac os. It would be better to run npm install on local machine. And then employing it on linux server of production environment. Can this task be done?
Sure can be. Build your project normally (via npm install), then, inside your project directory, write a Dockerfile like this:
FROM node:7.8.0-alpine
# Create app directory
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
# Install app dependencies
RUN apk update && apk upgrade && apk add git
# Copy your already built project files inside image
COPY . .
ENV HOST 0.0.0.0
EXPOSE 3000
# start command
CMD [ "npm", "start" ]
Make sure your Dockerfile is in the project's root directory where you'd normally run npm start.
Then, in order to create a image with your project, just do:
$ docker build -t myapp .
and run it with:
$ docker run -it -p 3000:3000 myapp