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Deploying a ReasonML React app with Docker

by anirudhmurali on 2/6/18, 7:34 AM with 43 comments

• by Kwastie on 2/6/18, 11:35 AM

  With pure Reason (No JS bindings) it should be possible to skip Node / Bucklescript on the server and compile straight to binary.

  This should be possible with something like bsb-native (https://github.com/bsansouci/bsb-native)

  I haven't tried this because I don't have a pure Reason project

• by anirudhmurali on 2/6/18, 9:36 AM

  Hi HN, here's the Dockerfile: https://gist.github.com/anirudhmurali/fee0181957bd9bcc9d5846...

• by theptip on 2/6/18, 3:46 PM

  One annoying thing you'll need to add before this is production-ready is configurable environment config, so that you can deploy the same container for your staging vs. production version of the app.

  I use a `patch.sh` as the ENTRYPOINT, which says something like

    echo $API_URL >> /usr/local/nginx/html/config.js
    echo $OTHER_CONFIG > /usr/local/nginx/html/config.js
    ...
    exec nginx
  

  Though there may be other ways to achieve this as well.

• by azr79 on 2/6/18, 10:11 AM

  What can ReasonML do that TypeScript can't?

• by jmcomets on 2/6/18, 1:53 PM

  Unrelated, but does anyone know what font/colorscheme are used in the screenshots? I find it very slick for code presentation.

• by tuananh on 2/6/18, 9:00 AM

  since we use bs to compile, shouldn't we use a node image to compile and then copy them over to runtime image later?