Deploy with Dockerfile (and doc possibly out of date)

[kushuh]

Hello,

Noob question here, sorry in advance.

I created an application with Tanstack start. I am having trouble shipping it through a Dockerfile, especially:

1 - Lack of explanation on the build files

I run vite build && tsc --noEmit to build static files. This generates multiple directories (.output, .nitro, .tanstack). It is unclear how those directories work together, and how I can serve them using a minimal Docker image:

• Which files should I copy
• What command should I use to serve them (node .output/server/index.mjs or vite start).

2 - Is hosting documentation up-to-date ?

I looked at hosting with node-server, as it seemed the most appropriate option. However:

• it still says to import defineConfig from "@tanstack/react-start/config" (which does not appear to exist anymore, and newest examples in the docs suggest to directly use vite).
• The preset: 'node-server' option is not recognized by vite, so it is unclear how to build for that particular target

Conclusion

Can the documentation about hosting be updated with the latest changes ?

Also, I believe providing a Dockerfile example can be useful, as it is a generic, provider-agnostic hosting solution (and it also helps when developping locally).

Next has a Dockerfile example: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/canary/examples/with-docker/Dockerfile, could something similar be done on the router repository ?

[tangzijun]

Yes, there is no @tanstack/react-start/config, but I found the @tanstack/react-start-config package. Unfortunately, an error will be reported when starting. I don’t know what to do now.