Docker node starter pack

Prereqs

• Docker

How to build docker

# Build docker container with specific tag, example: docker-testing
TAG=docker-testing
docker build -t docker-node-starter:$TAG .

This will build a docker container using the Dockerfile.

This creates a docker container with the name docker-node-starter and tags it with docker-testing

How to run docker

TAG=docker-testing

# To run docker container with an interactive bash shell
docker run -i -t -v `pwd`:/workspace docker-node-starter:$TAG /bin/sh

# To run docker container with node repl
docker run -i -t docker-node-starter:$TAG node

# To just run the server. Should be accessible via port 8080 now
docker run -i -t -p 8080:8080 docker-node-starter:$TAG

Notes

• Using -v will mount the current directory into /workspace of the container so that you can develop locally on the computer and have it show up in the container

Node.js

When you want a node module available with the service make sure to run npm install --save node-module so that it gets saved as a production dependency

Eslint

Brought in a strict linter for the es6 standard. You can run linting by just running npm test

This is usefully just to a standard. It uses the eslint-config-airbnb-base linting standard which is pretty good.