timd / AdonisjsToFlyio

An example hello world Adonis JS project for deployment to fly.io

AdonisjsToFlyio

This is an example "hello world" Adonis JS project for deployment to fly.io

Prerequisites

1. Install AdonisJS as per the documentation
2. Setup a fly.io account

Setup for deployment

1. Write your Adonisjs code as usual
2. Build the project with node ace build --production
3. Setup the project for fly.io: flyctl launch in the project root (accept/change the defaults as required)
4. Update the Dockerfile - remove the following lines:

COPY . .
RUN npm install && npm run build

5. Replace with

COPY ./build .
COPY ./.env.production ./.env

RUN npm install

Changes implemented

This update makes the following changes:

• uses the build directory as the source for the production server's files
• copies the .env.production file from the project root to the build root, and renames to .env
• removes the build step, as this has aleady been performed by step 2 above