Error in running hosting an Apostrophe project with Docker

[ramisedhom]

I create Dockerfile as instructed in https://docs.apostrophecms.org/cookbook/using-docker.html:

FROM node:lts-alpine3.15

WORKDIR /srv/www/apostrophe

RUN chown -R node: /srv/www/apostrophe
USER node

COPY --chown=node package*.json /srv/www/apostrophe/

ENV NODE_ENV=production
RUN npm ci

COPY --chown=node . /srv/www/apostrophe/

RUN ./scripts/build-assets.sh

CMD ["node", "app.js"]

When I run docker compose build, I got error:

[+] Building 4.1s (9/11)                                                                                                                                                    docker:default
 => [web internal] load build definition from Dockerfile                                                                                                                              0.0s
 => => transferring dockerfile: 330B                                                                                                                                                  0.0s 
 => [web internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/node:lts-alpine3.15                                                                                                            2.2s 
 => [web internal] load .dockerignore                                                                                                                                                 0.0s
 => => transferring context: 230B                                                                                                                                                     0.0s 
 => [web 1/7] FROM docker.io/library/node:lts-alpine3.15@sha256:cd3a7004267e419477bbfc50e0502df8607a0b9b4465092f6e2c2ce4092faa45                                                      0.0s 
 => [web internal] load build context                                                                                                                                                 0.0s 
 => => transferring context: 139B                                                                                                                                                     0.0s 
 => CACHED [web 2/7] WORKDIR /srv/www/apostrophe                                                                                                                                      0.0s 
 => CACHED [web 3/7] RUN chown -R node: /srv/www/apostrophe                                                                                                                           0.0s 
 => CACHED [web 4/7] COPY --chown=node package*.json /srv/www/apostrophe/                                                                                                             0.0s 
 => ERROR [web 5/7] RUN npm ci                                                                                                                                                        1.6s 
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 > [web 5/7] RUN npm ci:
1.519 npm ERR! code EUSAGE
1.527 npm ERR!
1.527 npm ERR! The `npm ci` command can only install with an existing package-lock.json or
1.527 npm ERR! npm-shrinkwrap.json with lockfileVersion >= 1. Run an install with npm@5 or
1.528 npm ERR! later to generate a package-lock.json file, then try again.
1.528 npm ERR!
1.528 npm ERR! Clean install a project
1.528 npm ERR!
1.528 npm ERR! Usage:
1.528 npm ERR! npm ci
1.528 npm ERR!
1.528 npm ERR! Options:
1.528 npm ERR! [-S|--save|--no-save|--save-prod|--save-dev|--save-optional|--save-peer|--save-bundle]
1.528 npm ERR! [-E|--save-exact] [-g|--global] [--global-style] [--legacy-bundling]
1.529 npm ERR! [--omit <dev|optional|peer> [--omit <dev|optional|peer> ...]]
1.529 npm ERR! [--strict-peer-deps] [--no-package-lock] [--foreground-scripts]
1.529 npm ERR! [--ignore-scripts] [--no-audit] [--no-bin-links] [--no-fund] [--dry-run]
1.529 npm ERR! [-w|--workspace <workspace-name> [-w|--workspace <workspace-name> ...]]
1.529 npm ERR! [-ws|--workspaces] [--include-workspace-root] [--install-links]
1.529 npm ERR!
1.529 npm ERR! aliases: clean-install, ic, install-clean, isntall-clean
1.529 npm ERR!
1.529 npm ERR! Run "npm help ci" for more info
1.533
1.533 npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
1.533 npm ERR!     /home/node/.npm/_logs/2024-10-29T13_13_59_157Z-debug-0.log
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failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c npm ci" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1

Not sure how to resolve this error in RUN npm ci, would you advice please?

[boutell]

This dockerfile is designed for production, and in production you would have a mature project that you have previously run npm install on at least once, which creates a package-lock.json file, required later by this npm ci command. Committing that file in your git repo and including it in your deployments (you should) ensures that you get the same results you got locally in terms of dependencies. Use npm update from time to time to update your dependencies and test before deploying.

If you are trying to use docker as a dev environment: don't. It's painfully slow as a dev environment (except on a Linux host) and it just isn't the easy way. I strongly recommend following our developer setup guides:

https://docs.apostrophecms.org/guide/development-setup.html