Source: medium.com
Dockerizing Your First Node ApplicationCategory: Redis, Docker, container, RabbitMQ
I always knew about the buzz around containerization and Docker but looking at the configuration files and reading articles about how it worked always freaked me out.
Yes, at times things got a bit hairy when moving projects around different computers and environment, but somehow I always managed to make it work.
That is when I realized how awesome Docker really is and how easy it is to set up.
In our case here, we are basing our image on node:latest which is common to use for any Node applications
The syntax is the following: So we are copying the package.json that has all our application dependencies from our local machine to the container’s directory that we just created and moved to.
Yes, at times things got a bit hairy when moving projects around different computers and environment, but somehow I always managed to make it work.
That is when I realized how awesome Docker really is and how easy it is to set up.
In our case here, we are basing our image on node:latest which is common to use for any Node applications
The syntax is the following: So we are copying the package.json that has all our application dependencies from our local machine to the container’s directory that we just created and moved to.
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