A personal cheat sheet for running local Node project in a Docker container

Tips & tricks

Setup an alias to start Node container and map the current folder for quick isolated Linux environment. Add to ~/.alias file

# Creates Node container with mapped current folder and runs Bash shell
alias node-box='docker run -v $PWD:/src -w /src -u node -it node /bin/bash'

Additional information

• Dockerizing a Node.js web app
• NodeUp Docker podcast episode
• Node Dockerhub images - list of Docker images with different Node versions
• Docker cheat sheet
• fuge - Node microservices and sites with nice development workflow
  • Microservices with fuge - my blog post showing local development workflow
• Run Node in a docker container with file access
• If you have multiple Docker files, you can pick the one to use during build docker build -f <name> .
• Good video from NodeSource Need to Node: Getting Started with Node.js, Docker and Kubernetes
• You can run very simple process for managing system signals inside the docker container and that can start your actual process. yelp/dumb-init
• 8 Protips to Start Killing It When Dockerizing Node.js includes how to make separate user, caching, etc.