README.md

Docker React Template

Setup

1. Install Docker and docker-compose.
2. Run docker-compose up -d --build. This will build the environment.

Dev

1. Spin the container, docker-compose start
2. To stop, docker-compose stop
3. To restart, docker-compose start
4. To remove the container, docker-compose down

Production

1. Fire up the container, docker-compose -f docker-compose-prod.yml up -d --build
2. To stop, docker-compose stop
3. To restart, docker-compose start
4. To remove the container, docker-compose down

React Router and Nginx

If you are using react router and nginx,

1. Change the default nginx config:

RUN rm -rf /etc/nginx/conf.d
COPY conf /etc/nginx

1. Use the file Dockerfile-prod-with-react-router
2. Create the following folder structures along with the default.conf file:

└── conf
    └── conf.d
        └── default.conf

default.conf:

server {
  listen 80;
  location / {
    root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index  index.html index.htm;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
  }
  error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
  location = /50x.html {
    root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
  }
}

Deploy

How to deploy to AWS

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App

with the help from M. Herman's article