Add Docker files for easier development/deployment

[nucleardreamer]

One common thing for a database driven project is the run mongodb and your project inside Docker (see installing here). In the situation this will be two files, one Dockerfile and one docker-compose.yml. This gives you portability for the database (meaning it's not just installed locally), and replicates what you might deploy to a service like railway, heroku, etc.

A simple Dockerfile would be something like:

FROM node:18-slim

COPY package*.json ./

RUN JOBS=MAX npm install --production && npm cache verify && rm -rf /tmp/*

COPY . ./

CMD ["npm", "start"]

And a docker-compose.yml something like this:

version: "2.1"

services:
  stockify:
    container_name: stockify
    build: .
    ports:
      - 5000:5000
  mongodb:
    image: mongo:latest
    ports:
      - '27017:27017'
    volumes:
      - dbdata:/data/db
volumes:
  dbdata:

Note, this is just an example from memory and not tested, so it may not work right off the bat. Let's chat if you want to learn more about Docker!

[rjoffray]

here is a link to docker docs that discusses docker commit that will allow you to save state of a docker container file system

https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/commit/