React Development Environment in Minikube

Prerequisite

• node and npm
• docker desktop
• minikube
• kubectl
• skaffold

Deploy to k8s

# switch to minikube docker dameon
eval $(minikube -p minikube docker-env)
# build react dev image
docker build -f Dockerfile.dev -t simple-app-dev
# deploy react to pods
kubectl apply -f k8s/deployment.yaml
# deploy node port service
kubectl apply -f k8s/nodePort.yaml
# expose port to host machine
minikube service simple-app-node-port

Hot Reload with Skaffold

• will only sync files without rebuild image.

scaffold dev