How to properly build the Docker with nodejs/ts? - node.js

Question

Been struggling for a couple days to run the project in prod and it just keeps showing different errors. The last one(hopefully) is:
> rimraf dist && tsc -p tsconfig.build.json
tsc-watch/test/fixtures/failing.ts(2,1): error TS1005: '}' expected.
But tsconfig.build.json is fine:
{
"extends": "./tsconfig.json",
"exclude": ["node_modules", "dist", "test", "**/*spec.ts"]
}
It happens after I try to build/run the docker container with:
docker-compose up --force-recreate --build
Here's what I have in the Dockerfile:
FROM node:11-stretch
ADD ./* $HOME/
RUN npm install
RUN npm run build
CMD npm run start:prod
And the package.json
{
"name": "mvp-api",
"private": true,
"version": "0.0.1",
"description": "MVP API",
"license": "MIT",
"scripts": {
"build": "rimraf dist && tsc -p tsconfig.build.json",
"format": "prettier --write \"src/**/*.ts\" \"test/**/*.ts\"",
"start": "ts-node -r tsconfig-paths/register src/main.ts",
"start:dev": "tsc-watch -p tsconfig.build.json --onSuccess \"node dist/main.js\"",
"start:debug": "tsc-watch -p tsconfig.build.json --onSuccess \"node --inspect-brk dist/main.js\"",
"start:prod": "node dist/main.js",
"lint": "tslint -p tsconfig.json -c tslint.json",
"test": "jest",
"test:watch": "jest --watch",
"test:cov": "jest --coverage",
"test:debug": "node --inspect-brk -r tsconfig-paths/register -r ts-node/register node_modules/.bin/jest --runInBand",
"test:e2e": "jest --config ./test/jest-e2e.json"
},
"dependencies": {
"#nestjs/common": "^6.5.3",
"#nestjs/core": "^6.5.3",
"#nestjs/jwt": "^6.1.1",
"#nestjs/microservices": "^6.0.4",
"#nestjs/passport": "^6.1.0",
"#nestjs/platform-express": "^6.0.4",
"#nestjs/swagger": "^3.1.0",
"#nestjs/typeorm": "^6.1.3",
"#nestjs/websockets": "^6.0.4",
"#nestrx/twilio": "0.0.2",
"#types/mailgun-js": "^0.22.3",
"#types/qrcode": "^1.3.4",
"aws-sdk": "^2.513.0",
"cache-manager": "^2.10.0",
"cache-manager-mongodb": "^0.2.1",
"cache-manager-redis-store": "^1.5.0",
"class-transformer": "^0.2.3",
"class-validator": "^0.10.0",
"dotenv": "^8.0.0",
"hbs": "^4.0.4",
"is-base64": "^0.1.0",
"libphonenumber-js": "^1.7.22",
"mailgun-js": "^0.22.0",
"mysql": "^2.17.1",
"nestjs-config": "^1.4.3",
"onesignal-node": "^2.1.1",
"passport": "^0.4.0",
"passport-jwt": "^4.0.0",
"qrcode": "^1.4.1",
"randomstring": "^1.1.5",
"reflect-metadata": "0.1.13",
"rimraf": "2.6.3",
"rxjs": "6.4.0",
"swagger-ui-express": "^4.0.7",
"twilio": "^3.33.4",
"typeorm": "^0.2.18",
"vcard-generator": "0.0.7"
},
"devDependencies": {
"#nestjs/testing": "6.1.1",
"#types/cache-manager": "^2.10.0",
"#types/express": "4.16.1",
"#types/jest": "24.0.11",
"#types/node": "11.13.4",
"#types/randomstring": "^1.1.6",
"#types/supertest": "2.0.7",
"jest": "24.7.1",
"prettier": "1.17.0",
"supertest": "4.0.2",
"ts-jest": "24.0.2",
"ts-loader": "^6.0.4",
"ts-node": "8.1.0",
"tsc-watch": "2.2.1",
"tsconfig-paths": "3.8.0",
"tslint": "5.16.0",
"typescript": "3.4.3",
"webpack": "^4.39.2",
"webpack-cli": "^3.3.6",
"webpack-node-externals": "^1.7.2"
},
"jest": {
"moduleFileExtensions": [
"js",
"json",
"ts"
],
"rootDir": "src",
"testRegex": ".spec.ts$",
"transform": {
"^.+\\.(t|j)s$": "ts-jest"
},
"collectCoverageFrom": [
"**/*.(t|j)s"
],
"coverageDirectory": "../coverage",
"testEnvironment": "node"
}
}
It used to build fine with these configurations but after purging all containers/images and trying to recreate everything it just doesn't work.
Does anyone know how to get it to run properly in prod?

Answer 1

Apparently the problem was that the node_modules would keep copying over.
Adding a .dockerignore file with the following content solves the problem:
node_modules
Now I can run the docker container successfully.