Today I’m going to share with you a much-needed Docker Compose setup that will allow you to deploy a fully functional website using Nginx and React with Next.js in just a few minutes.

The first thing you need to do is create the docker-compose.yml file:
version: '3' services: nextjs-app: build: context: . ports: - "3000:3000" nginx: image: nginx:alpine ports: - "80:80" volumes: - ./config/nginx/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro depends_on: - nextjs-app
Now let’s create a Dockerfile:
# Use a Node.js alpine image as base FROM node:alpine as build-stage # Set the working directory in the container WORKDIR /app # Copy package.json and package-lock.json to the working directory COPY package.json package-lock.json ./ # Install dependencies RUN npm ci --only=production # Copy the rest of the application code to the working directory COPY . . # Build the Next.js application RUN npm run build # Expose port 3000 EXPOSE 3000 # Start the Next.js production server CMD ["npm", "start"]
Now we create the config/nginx folder and add the file named nginx.conf
Finally, we need to copy these files to the root of our project, resulting in the following structure:
.next config/nginx/nginx.conf public/ src/ docker-compose.yml Dockerfile
This will allow us to run Docker. To do this, we launch the command:
docker compose up -d
And we can access the website from http://localhost:80
