demo app - developing with Docker
This demo app shows a simple user profile app set up using
- index.html with pure js and css styles
- nodejs backend with express module
- mongodb for data storage
All components are docker-based
With Docker
To start the application
Step 1: Create docker network
docker network create mongo-network
Step 2: start mongodb
docker run -d -p 27017:27017 -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=admin -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=password —name mongodb —net mongo-network mongo
Step 3: start mongo-express
docker run -d -p 8081:8081 -e ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINUSERNAME=admin -e ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINPASSWORD=password —net mongo-network —name mongo-express -e ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_SERVER=mongodb mongo-express
NOTE: creating docker-network in optional. You can start both containers in a default network. In this case, just emit --net flag in docker run command
Step 4: open mongo-express from browser
Step 5: create user-account db and users collection in mongo-express
Step 6: Start your nodejs application locally - go to app directory of project
npm install node server.js
Step 7: Access you nodejs application UI from browser
With Docker Compose
To start the application
Step 1: start mongodb and mongo-express
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yaml up
You can access the mongo-express under localhost:8080 from your browser
Step 2: in mongo-express UI - create a new database “my-db”
Step 3: in mongo-express UI - create a new collection “users” in the database “my-db”
Step 4: start node server
npm install node server.js
Step 5: access the nodejs application from browser
To build a docker image from the application
docker build -t my-app:1.0 .
The dot ”.” at the end of the command denotes location of the Dockerfile.