And it will work and will be useful **during development**.

But if your connection to the server is lost, the **running process** will probably die.

And if the server is restarted (for example after updates, or migrations from the cloud provider) you probably **won't notice it**. And because of that, you won't even know that you have to restart the process manually. So, your API will just stay dead. 😱

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Then, near the end of the `Dockerfile`, we copy all the code. As this is what **changes most frequently**, we put it near the end, because almost always, anything after this step will not be able to use the cache.

```Dockerfile
COPY ./app /code/app
```

### Build the Docker Image

Now that all the files are in place, let's build the container image.