There is already a published image in #19, but the current Dockerfile still has several issues:

• prisma is in devDependencies but is not installed in the production image, which leads to missing Prisma CLI at runtime.
  

  Siftly/docker/Dockerfile

  Lines 28 to 31 in 61e7bde

  	RUN npm ci --omit=dev
  	# Re-generate Prisma client in runner stage
  	RUN node_modules/.bin/prisma generate

• better-sqlite3 does not need to be built from source. npm ci will not build it from source in this case, so that step is unnecessary.
  

  Siftly/docker/Dockerfile

  Lines 5 to 6 in 61e7bde

  	# Native module build deps (required by better-sqlite3)
  	RUN apk add --no-cache python3 make g++

• this is a very dangerous operation:
  

  Siftly/docker/Dockerfile

  Line 15 in 61e7bde

  COPY . .

  It may copy existing node_modules from the host into the image.

  I tried to fix the missing Prisma CLI by using:

  COPY --from=builder /app/node_modules ./node_modules

  but this caused environment pollution.

  A better approach is to add a .dockerignore file to exclude node_modules. This will also speed up the build process.

Here is a complete working example of a Dockerfile:

dockerfile

# ── builder ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
FROM node:22-alpine AS builder
WORKDIR /app

COPY package*.json ./
COPY prisma ./prisma
RUN npm ci

# Generate Prisma client
RUN node_modules/.bin/prisma generate

COPY . .
RUN npm run build

# ── runner ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
FROM node:22-alpine
WORKDIR /app

RUN addgroup -S appgroup && adduser -S appuser -G appgroup

# Install production deps (includes prisma + better-sqlite3, rebuilt for this image)
COPY package*.json ./
COPY prisma ./prisma
RUN npm ci --omit=dev

# Re-generate Prisma client in runner stage
RUN npm install prisma@$(node -p "require('./package.json').devDependencies.prisma") --no-save
RUN node_modules/.bin/prisma generate

# Copy built Next.js output
COPY --from=builder /app/.next ./.next
COPY --from=builder /app/public ./public
COPY --from=builder /app/next.config.ts ./next.config.ts
COPY --from=builder /app/prisma.config.ts ./prisma.config.ts

# Entrypoint
COPY docker/docker-entrypoint.sh ./docker-entrypoint.sh
RUN chmod +x ./docker-entrypoint.sh

RUN mkdir -p /data && chown -R appuser:appgroup /app /data
USER appuser

EXPOSE 3000

# /data is the volume mount point for the SQLite database
VOLUME ["/data"]

CMD ["./docker-entrypoint.sh"]

.dockerignore

.git
.github
.next
app/generated
docker/*
!docker/docker-entrypoint.sh
node_modules
.dockerignore
.env
.env.example
.gitignore
*.log
*.db

Finally, prisma still needs to be moved from devDependencies to dependencies.