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Just go nginx, anything else is faffing about. Busybox may not be security tested, so best to avoid on the internet. Php is pointless when its a static site with no php. Id avoid freenginx until its clear that it is going to be supported. There is nothing wrong with stock nginx, the fork is largely political rather than technical.
Absolutely, but it has a built-in webserver that can serve static files, too (I constantly use that in my dev environment).
But I guess you're mostly right about just using Nginx. I already have multiple containers running it, though. Most of them just serving static files. But it's ca. 50 megabytes compressed size each container just for Nginx alone.
How about Python? You can get an HTTP server going with just
python3 -m http.serverfrom the dir where the files are. Worth remembering because Python is super common and probably already installed in many places (be it on host or in containers).I once built a router in Python, but it was annoying. The much I like Python, the much I dislike coding in it. Just firing up a web server with it is no big deal, though.
I was even thinking of node.js, but this comes with a whole different set of issues. It would allow for future extensions of the project on the server-side, though.
What do you use for Node containers? I use an Alpine image where I install Node but I've been wondering if there's a better way.
Would be my first one. I'd likely go the Alpine route, too. It's used as option for the Docker official image.
https://hub.docker.com/_/node/tags?page=1&name=alpine