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One Dockerfile for Production and Development

Zach Silveira
Nov 14, 2017
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One Dockerfile for Production and Development

Too many intro to Docker tutorials create multiple Dockerfiles for each environment, or only go over creating one environment. Here's a quick and easy way to keep a single file and overwrite the command in development.

Let's look at an example Dockerfile for building a react app and copying it over to nginx:

FROM node:latest

COPY package.json package.jso…

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