Can Unit run NodeJS Nuxt applications?

[rommanio]

We have infrastructure with many PHP applications. A part of these applications we're running in Nginx Unit. We have external developers who develop Nuxt application. We want to unify our infrastructure and use Unit everywhere. But when we trying to build Nuxt application and run it in Unit (as documented here, in Unit documentation), curl stucks on Unit port, but on Node port, 3000, curl works normally.

[tippexs]

Good morning!

Do you have an example application so we can reproduce the issue?

[rommanio]

Yes, we can provide it. https://github.com/rommanio/sample-nuxt-unit-app You can build and run it by docker compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml build && docker compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml up.

[tippexs]

@javorszky please give it a try to check whats the issue. Feel free to invite other to join the research.

[javorszky]

I've been debugging for the past hour and a bit. I have an idea where / why it hangs, but haven't found the concrete issue yet. I'll keep everyone updated once I either get stuck and need more answers or found a resolution :)

[javorszky]

@rommanio we found a possible cause for this. Testing whether that's causing it and trying to fix it.

[rommanio]

@rommanio we found a possible cause for this. Testing whether that's causing it and trying to fix it.

Good news. Thank you! :)

[javorszky]

@rommanio I've opened a PR to fix this issue that I tested locally: https://github.com/nginx/unit/pull/1020

Here's how you can test the same changesets on your end:

1. copy unit-http into your sample repository's docker folder. I had that local copy as ./docker/unit-http. This is so the local files can be copied into the dockerfile

2. modify the dockerfile so it looks like this:

   FROM unit:1.31.1-node20
   
   #COPY --chown=unit . /var/www/
   
   RUN mkdir -p /builder
   COPY . /builder
   COPY docker/unit-http /lib/unit-http
   WORKDIR /builder
   RUN npm i --progress=false
   RUN npm run build
   RUN mkdir -p build && cp -r .output/server build/
   RUN npm run generate
   RUN cp -r .output/public build/
   RUN cp -r build /var/www/
   RUN chown -R unit:unit /var/www
   
   RUN chmod +x /var/www/server/index.mjs
   
   WORKDIR /var/www/server

   notable changes:

   • removed all the npm links
   • copied the local copy of unit-http from the host into /lib/ folder inside the dockerfile
   • removed copying the unit.json file
3. change the unit.json file's arguments part to this:

           "arguments": [
               "node",
               "--loader",
               "/lib/unit-http/loader.mjs",
               "--require",
               "/lib/unit-http/loader",
               "index.mjs"
           ],

   notable changes:

   • replaced the require and loader paths from specifying only the package name to its path on the disk: /lib/...
4. change the docker-compose.yml to add a volume mount on it:

       volumes:
         - ./unit.json:/docker-entrypoint.d/config.json

   this way the image doesn't need to be rebuilt if we're only making configuration changes

5. lastly change the local copy of the ./docker/unit-http/loader.js and ./docker/unit-http/loader.mjs files so they add the new lines that are in the pull request.

That fixed the issue for me.

[andrey-zelenkov]

Could you please also include short description in docs/changes.xml (for release purposes), since this change is visible for users.

Something like:

diff --git a/docs/changes.xml b/docs/changes.xml
--- a/docs/changes.xml
+++ b/docs/changes.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ with Next.js.
 </para>
 </change>

+<change type="bugfix">
+<para>
+Node.js module name rules, notable for Node.js Nuxt applications.
+</para>
+</change>
+
+
 </changes>