spa-static-server

A simple javascript server to host a production SPA build, or an auto-reloading development build, using environment variables only.

Features

• Builds a simple docker image useful for running static builds from a docker compose yml file hosted at transcendio/spa-static-server.
• Host with HTTPS
• Runs a static build redirecting 404s to index.html
• Has the ability to download builds from
• Auto-reloads on build change in NODE_ENV=development
• Fetches GraphQL fragment types and writes them to file
• Proxies all requests matching PROXY_ROUTE to the backend

Setup

1. Clone:

   git clone https://github.com/transcend-io/spa-static-server.git

2. Build the docker image

   npm run build

3. Install locally

   npm i

Usage as Docker Image

An example of using this docker file can be found in examples/example.yml.

1. Modify the file to point to files on your local machine
2. Run npm run build to build the image
3. Docker compose the example examples/docker-compose -f example.yml up

Usage as Cli

The server can be installed with npm and used as at the command line.

npm i transcend-io/spa-static-server
BUILD_ENV_PATH=./env tr-server

Environment Variables

Name	Comment	Default	Required
BACKEND_URL	The URL of the backend server	NA	REQUIRED
FRONTEND_URL	The URL to host the frontend server on	NA	REQUIRED
PROXY_ROUTE	Proxy all requests made by the frontend to the BACKEND_URL starting with this path	/backend	REQUIRED
NODE_ENV	Node environment	production	OPTIONAL
WEBPACK_PATH	Webpack configuration path	NA	REQUIRED if NODE_ENV!=production
SSL_CERT	The location of the SSL certificate	/ssl/certificate.pem	OPTIONAL
SSL_KEY	The location of the SSL key	/ssl/private.key	OPTIONAL
BUILD_PATH	The location to keep the build	/build	OPTIONAL
S3_BUCKET	The location of the S3 bucket holding the build	NA	OPTIONAL
WRITE_FRAGMENT_PATH	Provide the path to where GraphQL fragments be written	NA	OPTIONAL
FRAGMENTS_ROUTE	The GraphQL route to get fragments from on BACKEND_URL	/graphql	OPTIONAL
BUILD_ENV_PATH	A .env file to read environment variables from	NA	OPTIONAL

• TODO image could be considerably smaller