Create a Nginx Reverse Proxy for a Node Server with Docker Compose

Create a Nginx reverse proxy for a Node server application with Docker and Docker Compose. We will also learn how to work with environment variables in Nginx, Docker, and Node.
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⌛Timestamps⌛
0:00 - Intro
0:10 - Project Demonstration
1:11 - Why use Nginx with Node?
1:39 - Creating Node Server
4:08 - Build Nginx Reverse Proxy
8:16 - Creating Node and Nginx Images with Docker
10:54 - Debugging
12:49 - Running the Program
13:35 - Inspecting Nginx Container
14:21 - Outro

[@soumiahm7318]

Great tutorial, thank you

[@cursedtrousers8735]

Nice bro

[@Jared.Graham]

how does this work with the frontend could you show a full stack version?

[@WittCode]

Essentially I would say serve up the front end app with Express in development and then bundle it up and serve it up with Nginx in production. I have a few videos that go over this that I've made recently I believe!

[@raulcalvo4230]

Wouldn’t it be “better” to use volumes or bind mount to copy the content in server to the container?. Thanks for the tutorials

[@WittCode]

Hey there thanks! Yeah for development I usually have volumes for both the nginx container and node server just didn't do it in this video!

[@denizbedel9366]

Do you realy need nginx: --> image: nginx you have your dockerfile