complete docker build

Author: VigneshVSV

backend/.dockerignore

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+**/node_modules
+**/dist
+**/coverage
+**/build
+**/logs
+**/tmp

backend/Dockerfile

@@ -1,15 +1,25 @@
-# Use an nginx image to serve the built application
-FROM node:22
+# Build stage
+FROM node:22 AS base
 
-WORKDIR /app 
-COPY package*.json ./
-RUN npm install . --force
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY backend/package*.json /app
+RUN npm install --force
 
-COPY . /app/
-RUN npm run build
-
-WORKDIR /app/dist
+COPY backend/ /app
 
 EXPOSE 5000
 
-CMD ["node", "server.js"]
+# Development image
+FROM base AS dev
+CMD ["npm", "run", "dev"]
+
+# Production image
+FROM base AS build
+RUN npm run build
+CMD ["node", "dist/index.js"]
+
+# Ideally we want to use nginx
+# FROM nginx:alpine AS prod
+# COPY --from=build /app/dist/ /usr/share/nginx/html/
+# EXPOSE 80
+# CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]

backend/package-lock.json

@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@
   "main": "./lib/index.js",
   "scripts": {
     "test": "test",
-    "build": "tsc",
+    "build": "tsc && npm run copy-non-ts-files",
     "lint": "tslint -c tslint.json src/**/*.ts",
     "dev": "ts-node-dev --respawn --transpile-only --ignore-watch node_modules --watch src src/index.tsx",
-    "start:hot": "ts-node-dev --respawn --transpile-only --ignore-watch node_modules --watch src src/index.tsx"
+    "start:hot": "ts-node-dev --respawn --transpile-only --ignore-watch node_modules --watch src src/index.tsx",
+    "start": "node dist/index.js",
+    "copy-non-ts-files": "cp -r src/docs dist/docs",
+    "copy-non-ts-files-win": "xcopy /E /I /Y src\\docs dist\\docs"
   },
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
@@ -30,6 +33,8 @@
     "express": "^5.1.0",
     "pg": "^8.16.0",
     "sequelize": "^6.37.7",
+    "swagger-ui-express": "^5.0.1",
+    "yamljs": "^0.3.0",
     "tslint": "^6.1.3"
   },
   "files": [
@@ -44,6 +49,8 @@
     "@types/node": "^24.0.1",
     "@types/pg": "^8.15.4",
     "@types/sequelize": "^4.28.20",
+    "@types/swagger-ui-express": "^4.1.8",
+    "@types/yamljs": "^0.2.34",
     "ts-node": "^10.9.2",
     "ts-node-dev": "^2.0.0",
     "typescript": "^5.8.3"

backend/package.json

@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
 	},
 	"include": [
 		"typings/**/*",
-		"src/**/*"
+		"src/**/*",
+	],
+	"exclude": [
+		"src/docs/**/*"
 	]
 }