Using ng serve instead of serving just with docker

[peb7268]

Hi,

I am trying to run two different docker environments. One for development, and one for production. For dev, I want it to update my sass files and compile my typescript like it does when running ng serve. My understanding though is running things in docker like your multi-stage repo here shows won't do that.

In addition, my app runs on web sockets as well so our usual approach to dev is to do:
ng serve
and then
node server.js

So we are serving the websockets as well as developing on port 4200.

Do you have some advice for how to achieve this?

Thanks!

[tiangolo]

Here's my advice, and what has worked for me and my team:

• Develop your front end locally, with ng serve, npm run start, etc.

There isn't a simple way to have live reloading and several features if you do all the process inside Docker. I run my backend server in Docker even during development (especially useful to connect to DBs in other containers).

• If you have a staging server and want to use a different Angular "environment" while deploying to a live server, you can use all this recipe. But for local development I've found easier to just use ng serve.

[tiangolo]

I assume that solved the question, so I'm gonna close this issue now.