Is there a plan to output in 'standalone' mode?

[yyong008]

When deploying some larger projects using Docker, it might be more convenient.

[sergiodxa]

What do you mean "standalone mode"? You can run a Remix app inside a Docker container the same way as any Node app, just run npm start.

[yyong008]

The Vite build outputs two directories: client and server, both of which depend on node_modules. The standalone output should relate solely to the production environment and include the node_modules directory.

[sergiodxa]

You mean you want to bundle node_modules? That's something you can configure in Vite itself, previously it was an option in remix.config to bundle the server dependencies.

Also build/client doesn't really need node_modules, since that's the client-side JS it doesn't depend on anything from node_modules, that's only used server-side to get better stack traces.

Without configuring Vite to bundle everything server-side, the recommendation is to first install the dependencies, then run the build and after that run npm install --production to only keep production dependencies (and ensure only the dependencies you need at runtime as marked as dependencies and the rest as devDependencies), with this your Docker image will have the build, public, and node_modules folders only, and the package.json to run npm start.

[yyong008]

sometimes, even when configuring external dependencies for some libraries in Vite, dependencies from node_modules are still needed.

[SteveSuv]

you can use tsup to build build/server/index.js again and pack all dependencies to a single js file.

// tsup.config.ts
{
    target: 'node16',
    platform: 'node',
    noExternal: [/(.*)/],
    ...rest of options
}

egoist/tsup#619 (comment)

[yyong008]

I will be try