How to Create an Angular Dockerfile

A step-by-step guide to create an Angular container

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Welcome Aboard

In this piece, you’ll learn how to create an Angular Docker container. At the end, you should be able to do this for an Angular application. Don’t be afraid to read this if you don’t have any Angular experience. You don’t need that.

You’ll get a deeper understanding on how Dockerfiles are created for real applications. This will allow you to become a better developer or understand what Docker can do for your team.

You’ll now be able to hand over your application wrapped inside a Docker container to any other developer (e.g., back-end). If they have Docker installed, they don’t need anything else. Sounds too sweet to be true, right?

I’ll show you how — step by step.

This piece is divided into four parts:

• Create a small sample application
• Serve the dist folder.
• Build/serve a multistage Docker build
• Add the application to a Docker-Compose file

First We Need an Application, Right?

So I’m going to assume you’re the developer of an Angular application, and you already have some…