How do you run the docker for production build?

[Tasin5541]

It's always running in dev mode even if I make Dev: false in docker-compose file

[przemek-nowicki]

Good question @Tasin5541, you can do it by the following commands:

1. For the sake of readability, build an image with custom name i.e. net.ts, so go to the root project (where the Dockerfile is) and run:
   docker build -t net.ts .
2. Execute the docker run command with all the required environment variables to create container based on net.ts image:
   docker run --rm -it -e NODE_ENV='production' -e API_KEY_TOKEN='your-api-token' net.ts

You should see the following result, if so you just ran the app in production mode.

> net.ts@1.0.0 server:prod
> node dist/server.js

2022-06-27 15:03:00 info: Logger level is set to info
2022-06-27 15:03:00 info: Aapplication listens on PORT: 8080 

btw. I will update README file about this part as it may be not clear for other folks.

[Tasin5541]

Do we need to copy everything for the production build (the ts files)? Copying only the build folder and package*.json should suffice, right? This'll keep the image size low too

[przemek-nowicki]

That's a good point, I will create a new thread for this to not mix up these two topics.