Avoiding node_modules in final build

[RicardoGaefke]

❓Question

First of all, thank you very much for your amazing work. I'm using razzle within an ASP.NET Core 5 (Jering.Javascript.NodeJS for ssr) app and it works pretty fine but there is something that I'd like to improve. Using Docker I need to copy node_modules to my final layer which makes it really bigger. This is my dockerfile:

# clones the app
FROM alpine AS gitclone
ARG BRANCH
ARG GIT_CRED

RUN apk update && apk add --no-cache git

RUN mkdir /root/app/
RUN git clone -b ${BRANCH} https://${GIT_CRED}@dev.azure.com/myCompany/myRepo/_git/any ./app

# builds the app
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:5.0-alpine3.12 AS build

RUN apk update && apk add --no-cache nodejs npm

COPY --from=gitclone /app ./app

WORKDIR /app/src/WebSite

RUN dotnet publish -c Release ./WebSite.csproj -r linux-musl-x64 -o ./publish

# runs the app
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:5.0.4-alpine3.12 as runtime

RUN apk update && apk add --no-cache nodejs npm

RUN export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin/node:/usr/share/doc/nodejs

ENV ASPNETCORE_URLS=http://+:5000

COPY --from=build /app/src/WebSite/publish ./
COPY --from=build /app/src/WebSite/ClientApp/node_modules ./node_modules
COPY --from=build /app/src/WebSite/ClientApp/build ./ClientApp/build

ENTRYPOINT ["./WebSite"]

The app wasn't working before copying the node_modules and I found this in your docs:

Is there a way to build server bundle to avoid copying node_modules?

Thank you very much.

[fivethreeo]

You can do it like this https://github.com/fivethreeo/razzle-with-docker-nginx/blob/master/Dockerfile

or bundle everything with buildType iso-serverless in razzle options