Disable live reload in production

The application enviroment can be set through the NODE_ENV environment
variable. It defaults to production. The application won't watch for
changes when running in production.

Author: erikap

Dockerfile

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ MAINTAINER Aad Versteden <[email protected]>
 
 ENV MU_SPARQL_ENDPOINT 'http://database:8890/sparql'
 ENV MU_APPLICATION_GRAPH 'http://mu.semte.ch/application'
+ENV NODE_ENV 'production'
 
 WORKDIR /usr/src/app
 COPY . /usr/src/app

README.md

@@ -83,11 +83,12 @@ You can install additional dependencies by including a `package.json` file next
 
 ## Developing with the template
 
-When developing, you can use the template image, mount the volume with your sources on `/app` and add a link to the database. The service will live-reload on changes. You'll need to restart the container when you define additional dependencies in your `package.json`.
+When developing, you can use the template image, mount the volume with your sources in `/app` and add a link to the database. Set the `NODE_ENV` environment variable to `development`. The service will live-reload on changes. You'll need to restart the container when you define additional dependencies in your `package.json`.
 
     docker run --link virtuoso:database \
            -v `pwd`:/app \
            -p 8888:80 \
+           -e NODE_ENV=development \
            --name my-js-test \
            semtech/mu-javascript-template
 

boot.sh

@@ -4,9 +4,17 @@
 npm install /app
 npm install
 
-./node_modules/supervisor/lib/cli-wrapper.js \
-    -w /usr/src/app,/app \
-    -i /usr/src/app/node_modules,/usr/src/app/helpers,/app/node_modules \
-    -e .js \
-    -k --ignore-symlinks \
-    -x sh start.sh
+if [ "$NODE_ENV" == "production" ]; 
+then 
+    ./node_modules/supervisor/lib/cli-wrapper.js \
+        -i . \
+        -k --ignore-symlinks \
+        -x sh start.sh
+else
+    ./node_modules/supervisor/lib/cli-wrapper.js \
+        -w /usr/src/app,/app \
+        -i /usr/src/app/node_modules,/usr/src/app/helpers,/app/node_modules \
+        -e .js \
+        -k --ignore-symlinks \
+        -x sh start.sh
+fi

package.json

@@ -14,14 +14,12 @@
     "mu-semtech"
   ],
   "dependencies": {
-    "body-parser": "~1.15.1",
-    "express": "^4.14.0"
-  },
-  "devDependencies": {
     "babel-cli": "^6.18.0",
     "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.18.0",
     "babel-preset-es2016": "^6.16.0",
     "babel-preset-es2017": "^6.16.0",
+    "body-parser": "~1.15.1",
+    "express": "^4.14.0",
     "supervisor": "^0.12.0",
     "sparql-client-2": "^0.6.0"
   },