Deployment

Adds dockerfiles + compose for dev environment. Proxy call to external api to https

Workflow:

We want 1 container = 1 process. This one of the most important rule in docker.

We use multi-stage build & builder workflow for reusability, to optimize the image size, build time and seperate concerns.

There 3 docker images:

1. Base Image with all node_modules needed to run and build the app (this image is updated only when packages.json is updated)
2. API Image with all node_modules needed to run the API
3. Frontend Image with all node_modules needed to build the frontend assets. There are 2 steps, build the frontend assets and then copy those in a an nginx container.

In order to optimize this workflow, either we should seperate the frontend from the backend in different repos/folders or if we keep this architecture all prod node_modules should only be the modules neeed to run the API and dev node_modules those neeed to build the assets.

Then we will have docker images that are slim, replicable and that do only what it is asked for.

TODO:

• update doc
• config env variables
• use elife client-config component for build time variables
• add compose example for prod with letsencrypt