React-Nodejs app frontend does not load with docker-compose up-CodePudding

I have a react nodejs application and it works fine running in local but when I dockerize it and run docker-compose up, the frontend webpage never loads and the backend running as expected. I am not sure where my configuration gets wrong for frontend and I would appreciate your help!

I have one dockerfile for frontend(react) and one dockerfile for backend(nodejs). I also have a docker-compose.yml file. The file structure looks like below:

--api(dir for backend)
 --dockerfile
--my-app(dir for frontend)
 --dockerfile
--dockercompose.yml

My docker file for frontend is as below:

FROM node:10
WORKDIR /usr/src/app/my-app
COPY . .
RUN npm install && npm run build
EXPOSE 3001

CMD ["npm", "start"]

My dockerfile for the backend is as below:

FROM node:10
WORKDIR /root/
COPY ./package*.json ./api/
RUN cd api && npm install
COPY ./server.js ./api/
COPY ./tracing.js ./api/
EXPOSE 3080

CMD ["node", "--require",  "./api/tracing.js",  "./api/server.js"]

My docker-compose file is as below:

version: '3'
services:
  app-backend:
    build: ./api
    container_name: app-backend
    ports:
        - "3080:3080"

  app-frontend:
    depends_on:
      - app-backend
    build: ./my-app
    container_name: app-frontend
    ports:
        - "3001:3001"
    tty: true

This is how my frontend package.json look like:

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "@testing-library/jest-dom": "^4.2.4",
    "@testing-library/react": "^9.5.0",
    "@testing-library/user-event": "^7.2.1",
    "bootstrap": "^4.5.0",
    "react": "^16.13.1",
    "react-bootstrap": "^1.0.1",
    "react-dom": "^16.13.1",
    "react-scripts": "3.4.1"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  },
  "proxy": "http://app-backend:3080",
  "eslintConfig": {
    "extends": "react-app"
  },
  "browserslist": {
    "production": [
      ">0.2%",
      "not dead",
      "not op_mini all"
    ],
    "development": [
      "last 1 chrome version",
      "last 1 firefox version",
      "last 1 safari version"
    ]
  }
}

After docker-compose up, I got something like below in CLI, I don't know why it shows me port 3000, I actually set the frontend port to 3001. I tried both 3000 and 3001 in browser but neither works.

CodePudding user response：

You change the port that a nodejs app listens on by editing server.js to reference a different port in its call to express.

However, its far easier to just point docker at the actual port that is being listened on, and then remap that to a desired port on the host. Given that nodejs is listening on :3000, and you want th access it on :3001 on the host, this is the proper compose.yml syntax:

  app-frontend:
    depends_on:
      - app-backend
    build: ./my-app
    container_name: app-frontend
    ports:
        - "3001:3000"
    tty: true