jawg/nginx-spa repository overview

⁠Docker nginx SPA

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• mainline, 1, latest⁠
• mainline-alpine, 1-alpine, alpine⁠
• stable⁠
• stable-alpine⁠

⁠What is nginx?

Nginx (pronounced "engine-x") is an open source reverse proxy server for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, as well as a load balancer, HTTP cache, and a web server (origin server). The nginx project started with a strong focus on high concurrency, high performance and low memory usage. It is licensed under the 2-clause BSD-like license and it runs on Linux, BSD variants, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, as well as on other *nix flavors. It also has a proof of concept port for Microsoft Windows.

⁠What is a Single Page Application?

A single-page application (SPA) is a web application or web site that interacts with the user by dynamically rewriting the current page rather than loading entire new pages from a server. This approach avoids interruption of the user experience between successive pages, making the application behave more like a desktop application. In a SPA, either all necessary code – HTML, JavaScript, and CSS – is retrieved with a single page load, or the appropriate resources are dynamically loaded and added to the page as necessary, usually in response to user actions.

⁠How to use this image

This image is based on the official nginx⁠ image, you can use it in the same way.

$ docker run --name some-nginx -p 8080:80 -v /some/content:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro -d jawg/nginx-spa

⁠Additional features

• gzip on selected mime types
• no-cache on html files
• 24h of expiry for images
• avoid large body in requests (POST/PUT...)