Adding new blog posts to docker container and having SSR

[Surgical17]

Hi Guys.

Struggling with a small issue. I am testing deploying the app in a docker container, then to map set volume to the host with the idea that I will just add new blog posts to the host and it will show up on the web due to ssr. Issues i have is right now files get added to src/data/post but this volume seems empty after build yet there is still data/blogs in the list. I assume this is in src/content/post? I tried to mount that to a volume but seems it doesn't exist and fails during build. Since if i mount the volume and if its empty the folder will be empty so during build I copy content from src/content/post to post_backup, then when i mount and start the container I run a inin.sh to copy the files back and start the app but its not working.

Any better way to achieve what im trying to achieve?

My Dockerfile:

# Base image for Node.js
FROM node:20-alpine AS base
WORKDIR /app
COPY package.json package-lock.json ./

# Stage for installing production dependencies
FROM base AS prod-deps
RUN npm install --omit=dev
# Debug commands for production dependencies
RUN ls -la node_modules
RUN ls -la node_modules/tailwind-merge || echo "tailwind-merge not found"

# Stage for installing all dependencies
FROM base AS build-deps
RUN npm install

# Stage for building the application
FROM build-deps AS build
# Copy the entire source directory including assets
COPY . .
RUN npm run build
# Debug commands for the build output
RUN ls -la dist/server/chunks
RUN ls -la dist/client/assets || echo "assets directory not found"

# Runtime stage
FROM base AS runtime
COPY --from=prod-deps /app/node_modules ./node_modules
COPY --from=build /app/dist ./dist
COPY --from=build /app/src/assets ./src/assets
COPY --from=build /app/src ./src
COPY ./src/content/post /app/src/data/post_backup
COPY ./init.sh /app/init.sh
RUN chmod +x /app/init.sh

# Environment variables
ENV HOST=0.0.0.0
ENV PORT=4321
EXPOSE 4321

CMD ["/app/init.sh"]
# Command to start the application
# CMD ["node", "./dist/server/entry.mjs"]

My init.sh:

#!/bin/sh

# Debug: Check if post_backup exists
echo "Checking post_backup..."
ls -la /app/src/data/post_backup

# Check if content/post is empty and repopulate if needed
if [ -z "$(ls -A /app/src/content/post)" ]; then
    echo "Repopulating content/post from post_backup..."
    cp -R /app/src/data/post_backup/* /app/src/content/post/
else
    echo "content/post is already populated."
fi

# Debug: Confirm content/post contents
echo "Final content/post contents:"
ls -la /app/src/content/post

# Start the application
exec node ./dist/server/entry.mjs