Dockerizing a Node.js web app
The goal of this example is to show you how to get a Node.js application into a Docker container. The guide is intended for development, and not for a production deployment. The guide also assumes you have a working Docker installation and a basic understanding of how a Node.js application is structured. In the first part of this guide we will create a simple web application in Node.js, then we will build a Docker image for that application, and lastly we will instantiate a container from that image. Docker allows you to package an application with its environment and all of its dependencies into a "box", called a container. Usually, a container consists of an application running in a stripped-to-basics version of a Linux operating system. An image is the blueprint for a container, a container is a running instance of an image. Create the Node.js app First, create a new directory where all the files would live. In this directory create a package.j...
