React app build is failing when building a docker image

Question

I am trying to dockerize a react application, but npm run build layer is failing and giving this error: Dockerfile

FROM node:16-alpine

WORKDIR /app/app-v2

COPY .npmrc ./

COPY package.json ./

RUN npm install --legacy-peer-deps

COPY . .

RUN npm run build:qa

RUN rm -r node_modules

# CMD ["npm", "run", "start:dev"]

CMD ["npm", "run", "serve:qa"]

I'm facing error on build layer.

 => ERROR [7/8] RUN npm run build:qa                                                                                     292.8s 
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 > [7/8] RUN npm run build:qa:
#11 3.687 
#11 3.687 > react-app@0.1.0 build:qa
#11 3.687 > env-cmd -f .env.qa react-scripts build
#11 3.687 
#11 12.59 Creating an optimized production build...
#11 291.6 The build failed because the process exited too early. This probably means the system ran out of memory or someone called `kill -9` on the process.
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executor failed running [/bin/sh -c npm run build:qa]: exit code: 1

Error

I'm using node v16 and npm v8, Docker Desktop, Windows 11 64

Did you check the memory usage during the build process? As the error suggests, you might've run out of memory. — Abhishek S, Sep 22 '22 at 07:38
@AbhishekS I am now building a image on linux server which has 8gb of memory still same issue, and as far I researched docker uses all the available memory of host system — Mohammad Shawer Khandariya, Sep 27 '22 at 05:48
Set Environmental variable: `ENV TOOL_NODE_FLAGS="--max_old_space_size=4096"` — Abhishek S, Sep 27 '22 at 07:24
@AbhishekS I already did this but no luck `react-scripts --max-old-space-size=4096 build` — Mohammad Shawer Khandariya, Sep 27 '22 at 10:30
I think this is the right way to use it: `node --max-old-space-size=250 \`which npm\` some_npm_command` — Abhishek S, Sep 27 '22 at 11:22
I face the memory issue before in development environment, at that time we uses this and issue resolved, that is the right way @AbhishekS — Mohammad Shawer Khandariya, Sep 27 '22 at 12:41
Then updating that as the answer. Please accept the same as answer @MohammadShawerKhandariya — Abhishek S, Sep 28 '22 at 07:00
@AbhishekS development environment means by running `npm start` script not with `npm run build` script, I tried this `react-scripts --max-old-space-size=4096 build` before your comment already but it's not working — Mohammad Shawer Khandariya, Sep 28 '22 at 10:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 22 '22 at 09:07

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Seems your server does not have enough system memory to build your project. In general, I would recommend 1GB memory on your vps or if using a windows OS then it depends on the version. It would be helpful to provide the amount of memory available on your host. Some reference on docker system requirements: Docker requirements

answered Sep 22 '22 at 09:07

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I am using docker desktop version 4.12.0 on windows – Mohammad Shawer Khandariya Sep 22 '22 at 09:37

React app build is failing when building a docker image

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