I have a development environment I'm dockerizing and I would like the ability to livereload my changes without having to rebuild docker images. I'm using docker compose because redis is one of my app's dependencies and I like being able to link a redis container
I have two containers defined in my docker-compose.yml
:
node:
build: ./node
links:
- redis
ports:
- "8080"
env_file:
- node-app.env
redis:
image: redis
ports:
- "6379"
I've gotten to the point in my node
app's dockerfile where I add a volume, but how do I mount the the host's directory in the volume so that all my live edits to the code are reflected in the container?
Here's my current Dockerfile:
# Set the base image to Ubuntu
FROM node:boron
# File Author / Maintainer
MAINTAINER Amin Shah Gilani <amin@gilani.me>
# Install nodemon
RUN npm install -g nodemon
# Add a /app volume
VOLUME ["/app"]
# TODO: link the current . to /app
# Define working directory
WORKDIR /app
# Run npm install
RUN npm install
# Expose port
EXPOSE 8080
# Run app using nodemon
CMD ["nodemon", "/app/app.js"]
My project looks like this:
/
- docker-compose.yml
- node-app.env
- node/
- app.js
- Dockerfile.js
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From the looks of it you could do the following on your docker-compose.yml
volumes:
- ./:/app
Where ./
is the host directory, and /app
is the target directory for the containers.
Side note: Syntax remains the same for all versions as of this edit