dockerify-cli

A CLI for simplifying how to dockerize NodeJS based applications 🐳

• About
  • Installation
• Getting Started
• Commands
  • dockerify-cli init
  • dockerify-cli build
• Contributing

About

DISCLAIMER: This package is still in development and therefore it is not recommended to use it in production dockerify CLI aims to provide an easy way to configure and distribute NodeJS based applications using Docker. The idea behind this CLI comes from docker-react-app-multi-stage-node-nginx and the need to make the configuration process easier as well as to provide cross-platform support.

Installation

Considering this is an executable package you don't really need to install it, instead you can use:

$ npx dockerify-cli <command>

NOTES: You need npm v5.2 or greater. This is not working on Windows when using powershell

There are two ways to install dockerify-cli: globally and locally.

Global

$ npm install -g dockerify-cli

or

$ yarn global add dockerify-cli

Local

$ npm install dockerify-cli --save

or

$ yarn add dockerify-cli

Getting Started

Using npx:

$ npx dockerify-cli init

or

Using installed package:

$ dockerify-cli init

NOTES: You have to use dockerify-cli.cmd on Windows when using powershell I'm still looking for a way to avoid using .cmd extension, if you have the solution please send a PR

You will answer many questions when running the init command so dockerify-cli can provide the best fitting configuration for your project. However, considering that this may be opinionated based, dockerify-cli will expose the configuration files in order to you to be able to modify them.

For example:

  ├── public/
  ├── node_modules/
+ ├── server/
+ │   ├── nginx.conf
  ├── src/
+ ├── .dockerignore
  ├── .gitignore
+ ├── Dockerfile
  └── package.json

Please note that you can decide whether to use nginx or an express server when answering the init command questions.

Commands

dockerify-cli init

dockerify-cli build