Crafting a Dockerfile for your React Application
The Need for a Dockerfile Deploying your React applications as Docker containers offers the following advantages: Maintaining consistency between development and production environments Standardizing the build, test, and deployment process Enhancing scalability and flexibility Ease of environment variable management Basic Dockerfile Structure In its simplest form, a Dockerfile can be as follows: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 FROM node:18 WORKDIR /app COPY package*.json ./ RUN npm install COPY . . RUN npm run build EXPOSE 3000 CMD ["npm", "start"] While this approach works, it is far from optimized, resulting in larger image sizes and longer build times. ...