
( Supported platform are Linux/windows/MAC). Pre-requisite: you must have latest version of Node and Docker installed on your machine.

#Nodejs dockerfile how to#
In this post, I do not intend to focus on NodeJS-based application development, but rather on how to dockerize already developed NodeJS based applications. NodeJS is also very popular in building end-to-end applications in JavaScript, typically using MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) and MERN (Mongo, Express, React, Node) stacks. Many enterprise application developers prefer NodeJS over other programming languages, such as JAVA, because of its light memory footprint, event driven, non-blocking model. It is mostly used to build highly scalable, fault tolerant microservices-based backend enterprise applications. Briefly, NodeJS is the most popular JavaScript-based server side ecosystem.

To better understand this tutorial, the reader should have some basic familiarity with Docker as-a-container technology and NodeJS-based backend applications. Hello developers! In this blog post, I will take you through a step-by-step procedure that uses best practices to dockerize your NodeJS backend applications.
