Issue to node-sass and Docker

Question

I\'m attempting to dockerise my node application. My current application is a nodejs express server with postgresql. ExpressJS uses node-sass-middleware to handle the sass asset

Answer 1

The support for Node.js 7 (for Linux and OSX) seems to have been added in node-sass v3.7.0. Make sure you use a version equal to or newer than this.

Either you can update your Dockerfile:

FROM node:7.2.1
RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y build-essential
RUN apt-get install -y libpq-dev postgresql-client
ENV APP_HOME /my_app
RUN mkdir $APP_HOME
WORKDIR $APP_HOME
ADD package.json .

# Add the two entries below
RUN mkdir -p node_modules/node-sass/vendor/linux-x64-51
RUN curl -L https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v4.5.0/linux-x64-51_binding.node -o node_modules/node-sass/vendor/linux-x64-51/binding.node

RUN npm install
RUN npm rebuild node-sass
ADD . .
CMD [ "npm", "start" ]
EXPOSE 3000

Or you can download the binding locally and then build from the Dockerfile without any modification:

cd /path/to/node_app/node_modules
mkdir -p node-sass/vendor/linux-x64-51
curl -L https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v4.5.0/linux-x64-51_binding.node -o node-sass/vendor/linux-x64-51/binding.node

Keep an eye out for different versions for the pre-compiled native bindings at: https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases

Answer 2

I have encountered this problem a few times when running my apps within Docker. I believe the problem arises when mounting my local app directory with Docker as this includes the node_modules folder which have been built in a different environment.

My local setup is Mac OSX while Docker is running in linux.

The solution for me was to add a .dockerignore file in the root of my app and add node_modules as per this suggestion https://stackoverflow.com/a/55657576/3258059

I then needed to trigger yarn install to run again in my docker container and also ran the node-sass rebuild command with the docker container: docker-compose run web npm rebuild node-sass where web is the name of my docker container.

I suspect my Dockerfile may have a bit of bloat but I will add in case it helps someone:

FROM ruby:2.3.7
ENV BUNDLER_VERSION=1.17.3
RUN gem install bundler -v "$BUNDLER_VERSION" --no-document
RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash -  
RUN curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | apt-key add -   
RUN echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list   
RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y nodejs yarn build-essential libpq-dev postgresql-client
RUN mkdir /myapp
WORKDIR /myapp
COPY Gemfile /myapp/Gemfile
COPY Gemfile.lock /myapp/Gemfile.lock
ENV RAILS_ENV docker    
ENV WEBPACKER_DEV_SERVER_PUBLIC localhost:3035  
ENV WEBPACKER_DEV_SERVER_HOST localhost 
COPY package.json *yarn* ./
RUN bundle install
RUN yarn install
COPY . /myapp

# Add a script to be executed every time the container starts.
COPY entrypoint.sh /usr/bin/
RUN chmod +x /usr/bin/entrypoint.sh
ENTRYPOINT ["entrypoint.sh"]
EXPOSE 3000

# Start the main process.
CMD ["rails", "server", "-b", "0.0.0.0"]

and my docker-compose.yml

version: '3'
services:
  db:
    image: postgres
    ports: 
      - "5433:5432"
    volumes:
      - ./tmp/db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
  web:
    build: .
    environment: 
      - RAILS_ENV=development
      - NODE_ENV=development
      - WEBPACKER_DEV_SERVER_PUBLIC=localhost:3035
      - WEBPACKER_DEV_SERVER_HOST=localhost
    command: bash -c "rm -f tmp/pids/server.pid && bundle exec rails s -p 3000 -b '0.0.0.0'"
    volumes:
      - .:/myapp
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
      #- elasticsearch
  redis:
    image: redis:alpine