maybe this will work on 1g

Author: noahFavelo

.dockerignore

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 node_modules
+build/*

Dockerfile

@@ -1,20 +1,31 @@
+# Stage 1: Install
+FROM node:21.2.0-alpine AS installation
+
+# this at a least keeps the packageloc out of the build stage.
+COPY package*.json ./
+# we do need this.
+
+RUN npm install --omit=dev --no-install-recommends --fetch-retry-maxtimeout 500000
+
+
+
+
 # Stage 1: Build
 FROM node:21.2.0-alpine AS build
 
 # python: required dependency for node alpine, shrinks image size from 2.17GB to 1.67GB
-RUN apk add --no-cache --virtual .gyp \
-    python3 \
-    make \
-    g++
+# as of the v22 team, this does nothing to help the package size, and is not needed, prior to v22, the package size grew to > 3 GB,but the v22 team got it down to 1.48Gb by streamliging the dockerfile logic.
+# RUN apk add --no-cache --virtual .gyp \
+#     python3 \
+#     make \
+#     g++
 
 ENV NODE_ENV='production'
 
 
+# we can just copy this for savings in build stage ram cap?
+COPY --from=installation ./node_modules ./node_modules
 
- COPY package*.json ./
-# we do need this.
-
-RUN npm install --omit=dev --no-install-recommends --fetch-retry-maxtimeout 500000
 
 #yep, we have to copy these.... );
 COPY ./index.html ./index.html
@@ -23,6 +34,8 @@ COPY ./app/src ./app/src
 COPY ./vite.config.ts ./vite.config.ts
 COPY ./resources ./resources
 COPY ./src ./src 
+# we need the package.json, but hopefully, not the pacakge lock.
+COPY ./package.json ./
 
 RUN npm run prod-build