Dockerizing a Laravel and Inertia App

Introduction This post assumes you are familiar with Laravel, Inertia and have a basic understanding of Docker. To follow along, you can create a new blank Laravel project with React. There are some complexities around file permissions, health checks, and volumes that we will address in this post. Note Reddit discussion around this post is available here . There were some suggestions, I’ve updated the post to reflect those changes. See this comment thread for more details. Prerequisites Docker installed on your machine. You can download it from Docker’s official site . Laravel installed on your machine. You can follow the official installation guide here . Basic knowledge of Laravel and Inertia.js. A Laravel Inertia application. If you already have Laravel installed, you can create a new project using the following commands(Skip the npm install and npm run build commands when prompted): laravel new demo-project --using=laravel/react-starter-kit:^1.0.1 The fixed version is merely used…