Building Minimal Docker Images for Node.js and Next.js Apps
By Sayyed Abrar Akhtar • Published 2025-02-08
Multi-stage builds, Alpine/Distroless bases, and pnpm prune strategies to reduce image size by 90%.
Deploying bloated 1GB Docker images slows down deployment pipelines and increases server costs. By adopting multi-stage builds and Next.js standalone output, image sizes can drop below 100MB.