Using Docker for Local Development in NodeJS projects

This video shows how to use Docker for local development.
- How to set up a development docker file
- How to use docker-compose for local development
- Demonstrates hot reloading in the local environment for docker.
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[@anuragprakash7256]

How can I use vs code JS debugger here ?

[@norbzzz]

Hi man. Thanks for the video. One issue I have is that if I don't have node module installed locally, it wont work. That's because of the volume overwriting the modules being installed by docker. If I remove the volumes instruction from the docker-compose file, command is working, but not hot reload. Any way to fix this, as having node mules installed locally isn't exactly the point of docker ? Hope I'm clear, pretty new to docker :)

[@MohammadAApu]

package.json missing when ran with latest version of docker, what is needed to fix this?

[@Rejuyan-Ahmed]

good content.

[@bmejia220]

Brilliant man. You help me so much. This make my dev environment much easier. Thank you.

[@ritishtimalsina]

If someone is getting the issue where nodemon does not reload after making changes, then change the script to start nodemon. Add '-L' to the nodemon script. E.g 'nodemon -L index.js'

[@aleenshrestha8119]

for debbuger

[@thefellowbreather]

This is really helpful! Btw, should we include "node_modules" in .dockerignore file?

[@davidfally5449]

Yes! The reason for this is that some dependencies might have native binaries built at download time and if the os/architecture is different to the one inside of docker (which it most likely will be) then things can break

[@AndreW-kr1rt]

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