Dockerfile that attempts to run the app as non-root user. This creates a `node` user & sets permissions on app files. Note you cannot `chown` files in a docker 'volume' during the build process, but you can at runtime (as part of your `CMD`) but in that case you can't use the `USER` command to change the UID before `CMD` runs.

Dockerfile

###
# Node.js app Docker file
#
# Some basic build instructions:
# ```
# # you should delete node_modules b/c you don't want that copied during 'ADD'
# docker build -t thom-nic/node-bootstrap .
# # run a shell in the container to inspect the environment (as root):
# docker run --rm -itu root thom-nic/node-bootstrap /bin/bash
# ```
###
FROM dockerfile/nodejs
MAINTAINER Thom Nichols "[email protected]"

RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash node
# copy the nice dotfiles that dockerfile/ubuntu gives us:
RUN cd && cp -R .bash_profile .bashrc .gitconfig .profile scripts /home/node

ADD . /home/node/app
RUN chown -R node:node /home/node

USER node
ENV HOME /home/node

WORKDIR /home/node/app

#ENV NODE_ENV production
RUN npm install

EXPOSE 8888

CMD ["npm", "start"]