Deploy a vuejs application with nginx and docker.

deploy-vuejs-app-using-docker.md

If you have a finished vuejs app you'd like to deploy to a production server, follow these guidelines.

We'll use nginx with docker to run our app.

Install docker

Install docker.

Create dockerfile

Create a Dockerfile file in the root of your project.

FROM node:latest as build-stage
WORKDIR /app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm install
COPY ./ .
RUN npm run build

FROM nginx as production-stage
RUN mkdir /app
COPY --from=build-stage /app/dist /app
COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Setting up the .dockerignore file prevents node_modules and any intermediate build artifacts from being copied to the image which can cause issues during building.

Create a .dockerignore file in the root of your project.

**/node_modules
**/dist

Nginx

Nginx is an HTTP(s) server that will run in your docker container. It uses a configuration file to determine how to serve content/which ports to listen on/etc. See the nginx configuration documentation for an example of all of the possible configuration options.

Create a nginx.conf file in the root of your project.

user  nginx;
worker_processes  1;
error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
  worker_connections  1024;
}
http {
  include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
  default_type  application/octet-stream;
  log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                    '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                    '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
  access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;
  sendfile        on;
  keepalive_timeout  65;
  server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  localhost;
    location / {
      root   /app;
      index  index.html;
      try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
      root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }
  }
}

Build and run

$ docker build . -t my-app

$ docker run -d -p 8080:80 my-app

More information here.