Add production scripts and Dockerfile: Building a microservices-based NodeJS and React app #063

Hey everyone! In today's video we (almost) finish setting up our Webpack pack by adding a production script and a simple Dockerfile to build our production files and serve them via an nginx server. This is not going to be the final setup of our production web client, but I just wanted to give you a taste of the workflow and the different parts of a production application.

There will be one more video which relates to Webpack setup coming up (I'll add the link here once it is published), and then we will have completed the basic setup of our React + Webpack frontend!

❯❯ GitHub repo for the project: https://github.com/lauromueller/unsocial-app
❯❯ Git commit for this video: https://github.com/lauromueller/unsocial-app/commit/22c835b18cb3ef9d72f5d64d6fcf21d054d55472

This video is part of a series where we are developing a microservices-based social media application with the main focus on learning the microservices pattern. We are using NodeJS for our backend services, and React for our frontend client.


─ ? VIDEO CHAPTERS AND CONTENT ─
0:00 Introduction
0:43 Agenda for the video
1:30 Merge dependency-updates branch into master
7:50 Update App.tsx with NODE_ENV variable
11:57 Create the webpack production script
14:27 Setup Dockerfile to deliver files via nginx
28:00 Differences between production and development
29:40 Commit and merge changes
31:51 Closing of the video :)


─ ? CODE SNIPPETS ─
❯❯ Production script: "build": "NODE_ENV=production webpack"


─ ? OTHER PLAYLISTS IN THE CHANNEL ─
❯❯ Typescript by example: https://bit.ly/typescript-by-example


─ ? ADDITIONAL LINKS ─
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❯❯ My LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauromueller/


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