This demo app shows a simple user profile app set up using
- index.html with pure js and css styles
- nodejs backend with express module
- mongodb for data storage
All components are docker-based
Step 1: Create docker network
docker network create mongo-network
Step 2: start mongodb
docker run -d -p 27017:27017 -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=admin -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=password --name mongodb --net mongo-network mongo
Step 3: start mongo-express
docker run -d -p 8081:8081 -e ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINUSERNAME=admin -e ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINPASSWORD=password --net mongo-network --name mongo-express -e ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_SERVER=mongodb mongo-express
NOTE: creating docker-network in optional. You can start both containers in a default network. In this case, just emit --net
flag in docker run
command
Step 4: open mongo-express from browser
http://localhost:8081
Step 5: create user-account
db and users
collection in mongo-express
Step 6: Start your nodejs application locally - go to app
directory of project
npm install
node server.js
Step 7: Access you nodejs application UI from browser
http://localhost:3000