Dockerfile is set of some instruction which helps to create custom image which Docker is going to run. To create a Dockerfile, write below 7 mentioned commands in Dockerfile.
- Docker image of basic dependencies from docker-hub, here node@17 used to setup
FROM node:17
- Working/project directory relative (or absolute) path inside container, will be created if it does not exist
WORKDIR /app
- Will copy package.json to project directory, it can be "." or /app