nullstone/node repository overview

⁠nullstone/node

Node Base Image that is configured with different image tags for local and production. This image is opinionated, but not restrictive.

⁠Quick Reference

• Maintained by Nullstone⁠
• Where to get help Nullstone Slack⁠

⁠Supported Tags and respective Dockerfile links

• local⁠
• latest⁠

⁠Variants

This repository builds 2 variants of images: a local image and a production image.

⁠Local

The local image variant is used to run node in an isolated development environment on your local machine.

• CMD is set to node app.js to run a development server.
• PORT is set to 9000 to align with Nullstone conventions to quickly attach nginx sidecar (example coming soon)
• ENTRYPOINT is set to a custom entrypoint script that does the following:
  • Run yarn install - Allows developer to run docker compose restart app to make changes to dependencies
  • If POSTGRES_URL is specified, set DB_ADAPTER=postgresql, DATABASE_URL=$POSTGRES_URL
  • If MYSQL_URL is specified, set DB_ADAPTER=mysql, DATABASE_URL=$MYSQL_URL

⁠Production

The production image variant uses node to run a node app in production mode.

• PORT is set to 80
• ENTRYPOINT is set to a custom entrypoint script that does the following:
  • If POSTGRES_URL is specified, set DB_ADAPTER=postgresql, DATABASE_URL=$POSTGRES_URL
  • If MYSQL_URL is specified, set DB_ADAPTER=mysql, DATABASE_URL=$MYSQL_URL