On my Windows machine, I am attempting to build a containerized node.js application with the following Dockerfile:
# use latest version of nodejs
FROM node:lts-alpine
# install aurelia-cli to build the app & http-server to serve static contents
RUN npm i -g http-server
RUN npm i -g aurelia-cli
# set working directory to app
# henceforth all commands will run inside this folder
WORKDIR /app
# copy package.json related files first and install all required dependencies
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm install
# copy the rest of the files and folders & install dependencies
COPY . ./
RUN npm run build
# by default http-server will serve contents on port 8080
# so we expose this port to host machine
EXPOSE 8080
CMD [ "http-server" , "dist" ]
However, docker build .
fails at the line Copy . ./
. with the message cannot replace to directory /var/lib/docker/overlay2/if2ip5okvavl8u6jpdtpczuog/merged/app/node_modules/@ampproject/remapping with file
.
What do I need to do to get my container image to build?
2
Answers
Add
node_modules
to a.dockerignore
file in the same directory as your Dockerfile, as outlined here: (h/t David Maze).Less gracefully, simply delete the project's
node_modules
directory then rerundocker build
.Create file
.dockerignore
and addnode_modules/
and try to build again that should solve the error you facing.