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USE-MILLER

# A container with pnpm and python3 is required
FROM node:22.21.1-alpine as pnpm_base

WORKDIR /app
RUN npm i --global --no-update-notifier --no-fund pnpm@10
RUN apk add --no-cache g++ make py3-pip libc6-compat

# run fetch in a separate step to avoid re-fetching deps on every change
FROM pnpm_base as fetched_deps
WORKDIR /app
ENV NODE_ENV production
COPY pnpm-lock.yaml ./
RUN pnpm config set store-dir /workdir/.pnpm-store
RUN pnpm fetch

# install all deps from cache
FROM fetched_deps as with_all_deps
COPY . ./
RUN pnpm install --offline

# Build the FE
FROM with_all_deps as builder
RUN pnpm --filter='*frontend' build
RUN pnpm --filter='*frontend' deploy pruned --prod

# Production image - only take pruned assets
FROM node:22.21.1-alpine AS runner
WORKDIR /app
ENV NODE_ENV=production
RUN addgroup --system --gid 1001 app
RUN adduser --system --uid 1001 app
USER app

COPY --chown=app:app --from=builder /app/apps/frontend/.next/standalone src/
COPY --chown=app:app --from=builder /app/apps/frontend/public src/apps/frontend/public
COPY --chown=app:app --from=builder /app/apps/frontend/.next/static src/apps/frontend/.next/static
COPY --chown=app:app --from=builder /app/apps/frontend/app.json app.json
# COPY --chown=app:app --from=builder /app/pruned/node_modules node_modules
EXPOSE 5000
ENV PORT 5000

CMD ["node", "src/apps/frontend/server.js"]
#CMD ["ls", "-la"]



<h1>Miller Start</h1>
<p>Miller start is a full stack application you can use to learn NextJs and NestJS and accelerate your own product builds.</p>
<p>This is the code that powers the <a href="https://usemiller.dev">Miller Start website</a> and some other apps I run. There is full documentation available <a href="https://usemiller.dev/docs/miller-start/get-started/quick-start">here</a>.</p>
<p>The backend uses a set of libraries I have built over years and that is available on GitHub as <a href="https://github.com/darraghoriordan/nest-backend-libs">nest-backend-libs</a>.</p>
<h1>The purpose of Miller Start</h1>
<p>Miller start is a full stack application you can use to learn NextJs and NestJS.</p>
<p>It is also a way to quickly build your own applications using these technologies.</p>
<p>I also use it a place to keep examples for my blog posts and learning on <a href="https://www.darraghoriordan.com">https://www.darraghoriordan.com</a>.</p>
<h2>Navigating the code</h2>
<p>You can navigate the code on the miller start website like in an IDE. This README content will change if you navigate to any sub directory which contains a README that is relevant to that directory.</p>
<p>The main monorepo is this repo - <code>use-miller</code>. The other important repo is <code>nest-backend-libs</code> which contains the shared libraries for the backend.</p>
<p>Both of these repos are available in the miller docs and on the GitHub repos.</p>
<h2>Folder Structure</h2>
<p>Miller start is a monorepo with the following structure:</p>
<pre class="language-txt"><code class="language-txt">apps
  ├── backend (NestJS backend)
  ├── backend-e2e (Jest e2e api tests)
  ├── frontend (NextJS frontend)
infrastructure
  ├── local-dev (Terraform for local development)
  ├── production (Terraform for production)
libs
  ├── projectDeploy (Scripts for deploying the project)
  ├── projectSetup (Scripts for initialising a new project)
  ├── shared-api-client (Typescript client built from OpenAPI spec)
</code></pre>


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