lxm7/docker-node-express-skeleton

A skeleton project that will get you up and running with Node, Express, & ES6 in Docker.

docker-node-express-skeleton

A skeleton project that will get you up and running with Node, Express, & ES6 in Docker.

This project will help you get started with using Docker to containerize your Node.js application. I have had some issues finding best practices for this, so I thought I'd collect my opinions here.

Caveat This is very opinionated, there are other ways to do this. But, I think this is a best practice.

Tools Used

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Node.js v4
• Express.js
• PM2
• Babel.js

Start

• Make sure you have Docker up & running. Instructions here
• Run docker-compose up

Todos

• Add test framework and tests