sharing my docker 2 stage build for production with yarn.

[paul]

For quasar pre-V1, I was using an approach with docker to publish my apps.
for V1, this approach gave some issues. Maybe useful for other devs, so here is my new docker file:

# Build stage
FROM node:8 AS buildenv

ENV YARN_VERSION 1.13.0

RUN curl -fSLO --compressed "https://yarnpkg.com/downloads/$YARN_VERSION/yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz" \
    && tar -xzf yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz -C /opt/ \
    && ln -snf /opt/yarn-v$YARN_VERSION/bin/yarn /usr/local/bin/yarn \
    && ln -snf /opt/yarn-v$YARN_VERSION/bin/yarnpkg /usr/local/bin/yarnpkg \
    && rm yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz

WORKDIR /generator
ENV projectName "my-project"
COPY ./${projectName}/package.json .
COPY ./${projectName}/yarn.lock .
RUN yarn
COPY ./${projectName} .
RUN node node_modules/@quasar/app/bin/quasar-build
# Runtime stage
FROM nginx
ENV projectName "my-project"
COPY --from=buildenv /generator/dist/spa /usr/share/nginx/html
# COPY ./${projectName}/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf --> in case you want nginx specific conf

EXPOSE 80

Some remarks:

• I run into something very strange when i used npm (with quasar V1) on docker: npm didn’t pick up the latest quasar node_modules. So, that’s why i moved to yarn in the docker file.
• the docker file explicitely installs a version of yarn specified in the docker file.
• I needed to downgrade to node:8
• No need to install @quasar/cli in the docker container !

Please provide feedback in case you see potential improvements.
cheers

[Hawkeye64]

Yarn is the only way to go. Continue to use npm for globals, though.

[paul]

@Hawkeye64 What is precisely the problem with global yarn?

[Hawkeye64]

1. There have been instances when Yarn borks everything up globally. If you haven’t hit it yet, then don’t worry about it until you do.
2. Yarn puts globals into it’s own location, thereby excluding use of Node Versioning toolsets, like NVM.

At work, we have 4.5.3, 5.0/5.1 and (upcoming) 6.0 versions of our product, each of versions are using different versions of Node and associated NPM packages, so I have to use NVM to manage all that.