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Docker-compose an express and mongo App

Jamal Al on September 17, 2018

Docker is a Tool that enables you to containerize your dev environment and by so helps you be more productive to focuses more on the code and stop ...
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Tom Mazo •

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

Maybe I missed something, but I think you forgot to mention that you need to fetch the items from the DB to display them in the index route.

Something like that:

app.get("/", (req, res) => {
  Item.find((err, items) => {
    if (err) throw err;
    res.render("index", { items });
  });
});
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Jamal Al •

Glad it helped and you're absolutely correct. I'll fix it as soon as I get time

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Jonathan Smith •

Depending on your platform (I'm using CentOS), setting the ports property in the mongo section of the docker-compose.yml file will also open port 27017 on your firewall, which you may not want to do.

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Jamal Al • • Edited

hey Enes K. Thanks for the nice comment.

make a file package.json in your project, copy/past bellow json object
and run npm install to get all the dependences.

{
    "name": "docker-demo",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "description": "",
    "main": "index.js",
    "scripts":
        "start": "nodemon index.js"
    },
    "keywords": [],
    "author": "Jamal",
    "license": "ISC",
    "dependencies": {
        "express": "^4.16.4",
        "mongoose": "^5.4.19",
        "ejs":"^"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "nodemon": "^1.18.10",

    }
}
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Juni Brosas •

in my case I used 3000:3000 in my docker-compose yaml port.

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Juni Brosas • • Edited

Also, the data storage did not persist. I added extra setup in the yaml file.

 mongo:
    image: mongo:4.2.8
    ports:
      - 27017:27017
    volumes:
      - mongodb:/data/db
      - mongodb_config:/data/configdb

volumes:
  mongodb:
  mongodb_config:
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Wael Ramadan •

Nice article, this might be worth a look github.com/WMRamadan/docker-compos...