Environment for local Javascript development

This repo contains files for setting up a local development environment using docker. The environment contains the following tech stack:

• MongoDB
• Mongo Express (interface for MongoDB Database)
• Node environment

Pre-installed packages

• Body-parser (^1.19.0)
• Connect-redis (6.0.)
• Express (^4.17.1)
• Express-validator (^6.13.0)
• Mongodb (^4.1.4)
• Mongoose (^6.0.13)
• Nodemon (^2.0.15)
• Path (^0.12.7)

Install docker desktop

To use this repo you need docker engine with docker compose installed.

Refrence the docker website to install docker engine on you machine. https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop

Get started

1. Navigate to the repo and open a terminal then execute this command:

 $ mkdir data/
       cd data/
       mkdir mongodb/
       cd ..

Running the environment

2. Next to start the environment run:

    $ docker-compose up --build

3. Place your projects and files in the "project folders"

4. In the browser navigate to: http://localhost/

Stopping the environment

You can easily stop the environment by opening docker desktop interface and stopping the network, or you can execute the following command:

    $ docker-compose down

Mongo Express

Mongo express is available on http://localhost:8081

• The Host is 'mongo' wich will resolve to the correct ip adress in the docker network *

When you are using Node.JS to connect to your local database use the following credentials

Credentials	values
Host	mongo
User	root
Password	my-secret-pw

Contact

This development environment meant for JavaScript development. Let me know if you have any feedback!

Goodluck! 🍀