This setup contains a docker installation tested for Laravel 5.5 + Laravel mix.

• app container
• mysql container
• phpmyadmin container
• node container

Node container is running in the background to poll the css and js files.

To start this setup use docker-compose up -d, this starts all the containers. For Linux and Mac be sure the files in docker/init-scripts have rights to execute. These rights need to be set on the host (so not on the docker server), and can be done by executing chmod -R 0777 docker/init-scripts in the root of your project

The app and node container contains a entrypoint, this calls an bash script to startup the container. This will allow us to override the standard execution of the docker image and adding composer and laravel mix actions.

apache_start.sh

#!/bin/sh set -e echo 'running prestart apache script' echo 'running composer install' composer install php artisan migrate echo 'initialization done, starting apache' exec apache2-foreground 

On startup composer install, php artisan migrate and apache2-foreground(starts apache service) are executed when calling docker-compose up.

node_start.sh

#!/bin/sh set -e echo 'running prestart node script' echo 'running npm install' npm install echo 'initialization done, start watching' npm run watch-poll 

When the node image is started npm install is executed, after that npm run watch-poll is called to continuously run Laravel Mix in the background of the node image. We are using npm run watch-poll because of problems with npm run watch not detecting file changes, but you are free to change this offcourse.