Is this a bug??? I had to do something unusual with my Dockerfile.dev and docker-compose.yaml to get v2 working in Docker and it feels off

[ohmeow]

What happened?

So its been awhile since i've spun up quasar within docker for local development. After battling things for a few hours ... this is what I came up with. But I'm wondering ... is there a better way (and why in the hell do i have to include index.html for things to work :))?

Dockerfile.dev:

FROM node:22-alpine
WORKDIR /app

# install project dependencies
COPY package*.json quasar.config.ts .npmrc index.html  ./
RUN npm i

# copy project files and folders to the current working directory (i.e. 'app' folder)
COPY . .

# configre default/required environmental variables
ENV PATH /app/node_modules/.bin:$PATH

CMD ["npx","quasar", "dev"]

docker-compose.dev.yaml

...
frontend:
    container_name: gp-frontend-vue
    image: gp/frontend-vue:latest
    pull_policy: never
    env_file:
      - .env
    build:
      context: ./frontend-vue
      dockerfile: Dockerfile.dev
    volumes:
      - ./frontend-vue:/app:cached
      - /app/node_modules
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
      - "9229:9229"
    environment:
      - NODE_ENV=development
    command: ["npx", "quasar", "dev", "-p", "8080"]
...

If anyone has any thoughts on how to improve this I'd love to hear. Thanks much!

What did you expect to happen?

I expect this to be sufficient in my Dockerfile.dev:

FROM node:22-alpine
WORKDIR /app

# install project dependencies
COPY package*.json   ./
RUN npm i

# copy project files and folders to the current working directory (i.e. 'app' folder)
COPY . .

# configre default/required environmental variables
ENV PATH /app/node_modules/.bin:$PATH

CMD ["npx","quasar", "dev"]

Reproduction URL

NA

How to reproduce?

N/A

Flavour

Quasar CLI with Vite (@quasar/cli | @quasar/app-vite)

Areas

Quasar CLI Commands/Configuration (@quasar/cli | @quasar/app-webpack | @quasar/app-vite)

Platforms/Browsers

Chrome

Quasar info output

Relevant log output

Additional context

No response

[stefanvanherwijnen]

Vite requires index.html as an entrypoint.

Why do you want to run the dev server in Docker? Also, the easiest way is just to copy the project and install/run it:

FROM node:22-alpine
WORKDIR /app
COPY . .
RUN npm i
CMD ["npx","quasar", "dev"]

If building for production, you need to look into multi-stage builds. I can give you a simple example if you'd like.