Umbraco Forms not loading in production/staging (Missing controller error)

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Hello !

I’m currently running Umbraco 13.8.0 with Umbraco Forms 13.5.0 in a Dockerized environment using .NET 8.

I get this error when I access the Form tab in the backoffice :
umbraco-backoffice-js.js.v638864548258708437:147 Error: [$controller:ctrlreg] http://errors.angularjs.org/1.8.3/$controller/ctrlreg?p0=UmbracoForms.Editors.Form.CreateController at umbraco-backoffice-js.js.v638864548258708437:25:168 at umbraco-backoffice-js.js.v638864548258708437:117:19 at ea (umbraco-backoffice-js.js.v638864548258708437:99:20) at p (umbraco-backoffice-js.js.v638864548258708437:90:355) at g (umbraco-backoffice-js.js.v638864548258708437:84:186) at umbraco-backoffice-js.js.v638864548258708437:83:311 at Object.link (umbraco-backoffice-js.js.v638864548258708437:321:432) at umbraco-backoffice-js.js.v638864548258708437:35:134 at Ca (umbraco-backoffice-js.js.v638864548258708437:108:361) at p (umbraco-backoffice-js.js.v638864548258708437:92:340) '<div class="umb-modalcolumn-body" ng-include="view">'

The backoffice renders:

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I suspect this is related to Angular not finding the controller because it’s not bundled properly in production. I attempted the following without success:

  • Deleted /wwwroot/Smidge
  • Disabled minification using RuntimeMinification options in appsettings.Staging.json:
"RuntimeMinification": {
  "useInMemoryCache": false,
  "cacheBuster": "AppDomain"
}

Eventually, I realized that when Debug=true in Hosting config, everything works but obviously that’s not a valid solution for production.

I’ve tried looking for solutions in forums, but I haven’t really found any that work. :smiling_face_with_tear:

Has anyone ever had this problem?

My Dockerfile is very basic :

# Use the official .NET 8 SDK image and set start directory as /src (create it if it doesn't exist)
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:8.0 AS build
WORKDIR /src

# Copy everything from our src/Web folder (host machine) inside the current directory of the container (/src)
COPY ./src/Web/ ./

# Restore as distinct layers
RUN dotnet restore
# Build and publish a release and output it to /app/publish in the container
RUN dotnet publish -c Release -o /app/publish


# Build runtime image and set start directory as /app
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:8.0 AS runtime
WORKDIR /app

# Copy the published output from the build image to the runtime image
COPY --from=build /app/publish .

# Set the entry point to the Web.dll of the runtime image
ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "Web.dll"]

Many thanks in advance!