asaramet / npm-run

Docker container with latest node version, with "npm install && npm run" as default cmd

Docker Image for Running NodeJS Applications

This Docker image provides an easy way to run your NodeJS applications in a container. It comes pre-installed with all the required software, libraries and tools, including Ubuntu, NodeJS, tini, and npm. The exposed ports are 3000, 4200, 80 and 443, and the offered volume is /apt.

• tag 2.0 - based on node:19.6.0-buster-slim and ported to ubuntu:jammy-20230126
• tag 1.0 - based on node:9-stretch

Key Features

• Pre-installed software, libraries and tools:
  • Ubuntu image
  • NodeJS
  • tini
  • npm
• Exposed ports:
  • 3000
  • 4200
  • 80
  • 443
• Volumes offered in the image:
  • /apt

Getting started

1. Pull the image from Docker Hub using the following command:

docker image pull asaramet/npm-run

2. Start the container, mapping exposed ports to your desired local ports (e.g. 80), and mount your local folder to the container using the -v option.

For example, to mount the current working directory:

docker container run --rm -p 80:80 -v $(pwd):/app asaramet/npm-run

Or, to mount the local folder /path/to/local/folder to the container's /app directory:

docker container run --rm -p 4200:4200 -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -v /path/to/local/folder:/app asaramet/npm-run

3. Enter a running container using the following commands:

# Get the container ID
docker container ls -a

# Start the container interactively
docker container exec -it <CONTAINER_ID> bash 

# Run other commands from your 'package.json', for example 'compile' command: 
npm run compile

4. The container will automatically run npm install and npm start upon launch. You can add this command to your docker-compose.yml file for easy configuration. Here is an example:

node_server:
  image: asaramet/npm-run
  ports:
    - "3000:3000"
    - "443:443"
    - "80:80"
  volumes:
    - ./node-server:/app
  command: npm install && npm cache clean --force && npm start