Accessible Mcroservices with Node.js and Docker

An example microservices implementation with Node.js and Docker

Requirements

Make sure you have the latest Docker and docker-compose installed. You may also want to have PM2 installed globally via npm i -g pm2.

Setup

Clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:dashersw/microservices-workshop.git

Quickstart

Start the application

cd microservices-workshop
docker-compose up

This runs the app in development mode and any changes to the microservices will live-reload.

Test example request

node test.js

Starting with PM2

Another approach for development is to use PM2 as a process monitor. You can start the app with;

pm2 start food

Production builds

Run the following for a production setup. The main difference with the test version is live-reloading — The production version doesn't live-reload any changes and will require you to re-build your images.

docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up