radenkovic / docker-node-development

Sample of using docker-compose and nodemon for development of node web servers

Docker for node development sample

This is configured sample with Docker, docker-compose and nodemon for live reloading of the server, so you don't need node installation locally at all. Uses small node10-alpine image.

Usage

• Install Docker and docker-compose
• docker-compose up
• Edit file in src folder
• Magic!
• Open http://localhost:8080 in your browser

Adding dependencies

After adding dependency (yarn add or npm install), you need to rebuild the image using docker-compose build. If you don't want to rebuild images all the time, you can add volume in docker-compose.yml

services:
  web_development:
  // other stuff
  volumes:
    - ./node_modules:/usr/app/node_modules