README.md

Node Static Site Example

This is intended as an example of how staticsite can be used with a Node application:

env-config.js.tmpl

A basic gomplate template which will be used to render out env-config.js at runtime with the value of MYCONFIG environment variable:

window._env_ = {
    "myconfig": "{{ env.Getenv "MYCONFIG" }}",
}

Dockerfile

First we need a basic multi-stage Dockerfile with a node build stage and a final stage for staticsite:

FROM node:latest as build

RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app

WORKDIR /usr/src/app

# copy your app to /user/src/app
ADD . .

# Build the site using yarn
RUN yarn install --pure-lockfile --ignore-optional --no-progress

FROM quay.io/panubo/staticsite:latest

# Copy build artefacts to staticsite image
COPY --from=build --chown=nginx:nginx /usr/src/app/dist /var/www/html

WORKDIR /var/www/html

# install the template install
COPY env-config.js.tmpl .

ENV RENDER_TEMPLATE_ENV_CONFIG=/var/www/html/env-config.js.tmpl

Code Example

Include the generated env-config.js file in your HTML page:

<script src="env-config.js"></script>

To utilise the environment variable in your application you could reference it as follows:

let myconfig = window._env_.myconfig;
...
// do something with myconfig value

Runtime Usage

To use the image:

# build the image
docker build -t myimage .
# Set MYCONFIG at runtime to the desired value when running nginx
docker run --rm -it -P -e MYCONFIG=somevalue  myimage nginx