Docker-based Node development environment

.dockerignore

node_modules/
.dockerignore
.git
.gitignore
.npmrc
.env*
!.env.example
npm-debug.log

docker-compose.yml

name: "example"

services:
  node:
    build:
      context: "."
      args:
        - "NODE_VERSION=${NODE_VERSION:-20.11}"
        - "NODE_ENV=${NODE_ENV:-production}"
        - "UID=${UID:-1000}"
        - "GID=${GID:-1000}"
    command: "npm start"
    restart: "unless-stopped"
    tty: true
    init: true
    env_file:
      - path: ".env"
        required: false
    ports:
      - "${FORWARD_APP_PORT:-8080}:8080"
    volumes:
      - ".:/app"
      - "/app/node_modules"

Dockerfile

# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.4

ARG DEBIAN_RELEASE="bookworm"
ARG NODE_VERSION="20.11"

FROM node:${NODE_VERSION}-${DEBIAN_RELEASE}-slim

LABEL maintainer="Daniel Weidner <[email protected]>"

LABEL org.label-schema.schema-version="1.0"
LABEL org.label-schema.name="node"
LABEL org.label-schema.description="Example Dockerfile for a node development environment"
LABEL org.label-schema.docker.cmd="docker run -d -v .:/app -v /app/node_modules node npm start"

ARG NODE_VERSION
ARG NODE_ENV="production"
ARG UID=1000
ARG GID=1000

ENV NODE_VERSION="${NODE_VERSION}"
ENV NODE_ENV="${NODE_ENV}"

RUN <<-EOR
	set -e
	apt-get update
	apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends build-essential=12.9
	apt-get clean
	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* use/share/doc /usr/share/man
	groupmod -g "${GID}" node
	usermod -u "${UID}" -g "${GID}" node
EOR

USER node
WORKDIR /app

COPY --link --chown=node:node package*.json ./

RUN <<-EOR
	set -e
	npm clean-install --include=dev
	npm cache clean --force
EOR

CMD ["node"]