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Dockerfile Build Errors With React Static Site In App Platform

Posted March 19, 2021 130 views
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Problem
I’m using App Platform to serve a React (using Create React App) static website. I’m using Docker in order to have predictable and abstracted builds (as well as other reasons)

But whenever I try to deploy it to DO’s App Platform I get build errors essentially saying that it can’t find the output directory. Such as ‘client | 19:44:34 ! /app/build does not exist within the built container’

App.yaml

name: project_name

static_sites:
  - name: client
    dockerfile_path: ./client/Dockerfile
    github:
      repo: valencian-digital/unique-expressions
      branch: master
    source_dir: client
    output_dir: /app/build

Dockerfile

FROM node:14-alpine

WORKDIR /app
VOLUME /app

ENV NODE_ENV=production

COPY . .

CMD ["npm", "run", "build"]

Question
How can I get a Dockerfile to work property with App Platform static sites?

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bhuggins March 19, 2021

To get this to work you should move the npm run build to be a RUN rather than CMD. The app platform build process will run all the steps that are part of a docker build. The CMD is set as a default start command for the container, but doesn’t get executed during the build process. The process to build a static site copies the files out of the built docker container image.

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  • luisSnorkler March 19, 2021

    Yup, that’s the solution. This is the correct Dockerfile

    FROM node:14-alpine

WORKDIR /app

COPY ./package.json ./
ENV NODE_ENV=production

RUN npm install --production=false
COPY . .

RUN npm run build
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