I am currently setting up a Docker container that will be used to Debug a NodeJS application. This container needs to support live-reloading (using nodemon) and needs to be a Linux container (my workstation is a Windows machine).
My current setup is the following:
Dockerfile.debug
FROM node:current-alpine
VOLUME /app
WORKDIR /app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm ci --only=production --registry=http://172.16.102.123:8182/repository/npm/
RUN npm install -g nodemon
ENV NODE_ENV=test
EXPOSE 8000
EXPOSE 9229
CMD [ "nodemon", "--inspect=0.0.0.0:9229", "--ignore", "dist/test/**/*.js", "dist/index.js" ]
docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
app:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile.debug
volumes:
- .:/app
- /app/node_modules
ports:
- 8000:8000
Everything works fine except the dependencies because some of these are plattform specific. That means, it is not possible to simply mount the node_modules directory into the container (like I do with the rest of the codebase). I tried setting up my files in such a way, that the dependencies are different for each platform but I either end up with an empty node_modules directory or with the node_modules directory from the host (the current set up gives me an empty directory). Does anybody know how to fix my problem? I have looked at other solutions (like this one) but they did not work.