April 2020
Beginner
192 pages
3h 15m
English
book
Your First Week With Node.js, 2nd Edition
by James Hibbard, Craig Buckler, Mark Brown, Nilson Jacques, James Kolce, Paul Orac, M. David Green, Florian Rappl
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Chapter 12: Using Docker for Node.js Development
by Craig Buckler
Node.js applications rarely exist in isolation. You could require a database, caching, message queues, reverse proxies, search, email routing, process monitoring, other language runtimes and more! Managing these dependencies on your development PC becomes significantly easier with Docker.
This guide provides an introduction to Docker. It concentrates on Node.js, but the concepts apply to any development languages or frameworks.
“But it Works on My Machine!”
Imagine you’ve created an amazing application with Node.js and a MongoDB database. It’s so successful, you’ve had to employ another developer to add new features. They clone the repository, run npm install && npm start and ...