Docker container exiting immediately after starting when using npm init react-app

Question

I am trying to start a Docker container with a react project, the project is created using npm init react-app.

This is my docker file

# Specify a base image FROM node:alpine  WORKDIR /usr/app  # Install some depenendencies COPY ./package.json ./ RUN npm install COPY ./ ./  # Default command CMD ["npm", "run", "start"] 

Docker build . creates an image successfully (with a lot of npm warnings) and then when I run Docker run <image> this is the output in my terminal

> [email protected] start /usr/app > react-scripts start  ℹ ｢wds｣: Project is running at http://172.17.0.2/ ℹ ｢wds｣: webpack output is served from  ℹ ｢wds｣: Content not from webpack is served from /usr/app/public ℹ ｢wds｣: 404s will fallback to / Starting the development server... 

Soon as it hits Starting the development server... it stops running in my terminal. If I check Docker ps I can see no containers are running, if I run Docker ps -a I can see a container was started up and then exited immediately.

Docker logs shows the terminal output above, anybody run into this situation? Its only with my npm init react-app project, my other nodejs + express projects run fine with the exact same docker file

Answer 1

I tried downgrading but it didn't work. What worked for me is in docker-compose file in the react app sector I added:

stdin_open: true 

This solution is also suggested here: issue on github