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 ...
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