[Solved] Simple Docker starts meteor only after login

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I know this is more a Docker than a meteor issue, but maybe there are more that want to try this :slight_smile:

I want to run a very simple dev Docker on WSL, but it throws a

sh: 1: meteor: not found

error when run via docker run -p 3000:3000 meteordev

BUT, when I run it with docker run -it -p 3000:3000 meteordev bash and run npm start on the command line it runs perfectly.

I guess this has to do with how the env is configured for both, but I can’t get it to work, any ideas?

Here ist the full Docker image. If there is another short one, I am happy to drop mine:

# Mini-Docker
FROM node:14

RUN adduser --disabled-password --shell /bin/bash newuser
RUN chown -R newuser /usr/local/lib/node_modules
RUN chown -R newuser /usr/local/bin
USER newuser

COPY --chown=newuser:newuser ./app /home/newuser/app
RUN chmod -R 700 /home/newuser/app/.meteor/local

WORKDIR /home/newuser/app
RUN npm install -g meteor@latest

EXPOSE 3000
CMD ["npm", "start"]
2

Thanks to the good old Stackoverflow I got the right answer.

Use the following Dockerfile for a dev Docker, maybe the rights can be simplified:

# Mini-Docker
FROM node:14

RUN adduser --disabled-password --shell /bin/bash newuser
RUN chown -R newuser /usr/local/lib/node_modules
RUN chown -R newuser /usr/local/bin
USER newuser

COPY --chown=newuser:newuser ./app /home/newuser/app
RUN chmod -R 700 /home/newuser/app/.meteor/local

WORKDIR /home/newuser/app
RUN npm install -g meteor@latest

EXPOSE 3000
ENV PATH="$PATH:/home/newuser/.meteor"
CMD ["npm", "start"]
3

Docker kinda sucks and is janky af so you should just set it up normally and avoid it

4

True, but we want to let somebody try out an app and they don’t know how to install npm, … But they have a lot of Docker. This makes it easy to share for demos :slight_smile:

5 
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | bash

It’s a one line install [https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm)

Miles easier then using that pos