Activity

Problem

When deploying an application that uses @laravel/vite-plugin-wayfinder, the generated Dockerfile fails at the npm run build step.

Error

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#21 ERROR: process "/bin/sh -c npm run build" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1
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#17 [production  3/25] RUN docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype --with-jpeg     && docker-php-ext-install -j$(nproc)         pdo zip gd mbstring xml bcmath intl opcache pcntl pdo_pgsql pgsql     && pecl install redis     && docker-php-ext-enable redis
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#17 5.015 checking for dlfcn.h... yes
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#17 5.064 checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
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130 |     # Add to vite.config: const isCI = process.env.DOCKER_BUILD === 'true'; !isCI && wayfinder()
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131 |     ENV DOCKER_BUILD=true
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132 | >>> RUN npm run build
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133 |
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134 |     # ============================================
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ERROR: failed to build: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c npm run build" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1
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exit status 1
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Deployment failed. Removing the new version of your application.
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Gracefully shutting down build container: yk8048gs8g4k84ss4scgk04k
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Cause

The Wayfinder Vite plugin attempts to communicate with Laravel to generate route types during the build. During a Docker build, there's no running Laravel application, so Wayfinder fails.

Current State

The generated Dockerfile includes:

• A comment suggesting how to modify vite.config to conditionally disable Wayfinder
• An ENV DOCKER_BUILD=true environment variable

However, this requires manual intervention from the user to modify their vite.config.

Impact

Applications using Laravel Wayfinder cannot deploy without manually modifying their vite configuration first.