Hosting an FastBoot Ember app with a backend API

Assumes you've built your FastBoot app.

    docker run --name my-app \
        -p "80:80" \
        --link my-backend-container:backend \
        -v /path/to/spa/dist:/app \
        -d cecemel/ember-fastboot-proxy-service

All requests with Accept header containing 'html' or requests to a location matching the regex are served by the Ember app. Remaining requests are proxied to the backend API.

The ones found in https://github.com/ember-fastboot/fastboot-app-server#quick-start. Defaults are:

services:
  fastboot:
    environment:
      ONLY_RUN_FASTBOOT: 'false' # optional: if the sole thing this service needs is to pre-render, all other calls (e.g. assets, api) are managed on another level.
      STATIC_FOLDERS_REGEX: '^\/(assets|fonts)\/.*'
      GZIP: 'true'
      CHUNKED: 'false'
      LIVE_RELOAD: 'false'

Mainly issues related to running the server in Docker.

If in ONLY_RUN_FASTBOOT: 'false' and your server redirects https to http. As a workaround some additional mapping is needed to make sure the rendering by the fastboot app works. (If you have better solution, let me know) In docker-compose

services:
  fastboot:
    extra_hosts
     - "target.hostname.of.incoming.request:127.0.0.1"

services:
  fastboot:
    links:
      - identifier:backend

• Develop mode needs tweaking. See start.sh script to enable the immature version of it. As single container, you could use the --add-host parameter. (Never tested this though)