The official Node.js docker image, made with love by the node community.
Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
See: http://nodejs.org
If you want to distribute your application on the docker registry, create a
Dockerfile in the root of application directory:
FROM node:onbuild
# Expose the ports that your app uses. For example:
EXPOSE 8080Then simply run:
$ docker build -t node-app .
...
$ docker run --rm -it node-app
To run a single script, you can mount it in a volume under /usr/src/app. From
the root of your application directory (assuming your script is named
index.js):
$ docker run -v ${PWD}:/usr/src/app -w /usr/src/app -it --rm node node index.js
The node images come in many flavors, each designed for a specific use case.
This is the defacto image. If you are unsure about what your needs are, you
probably want to use this one. It is designed to be used both as a throw away
container (mount your source code and start the container to start your app), as
well as the base to build other images off of. This tag is based off of
buildpack-deps.
buildpack-deps is designed for the average user of docker who has many images
on their system. It, by design, has a large number of extremely common Debian
packages. This reduces the number of packages that images that derive from it
need to install, thus reducing the overall size of all images on your system.
This image makes building derivative images easier. For most use cases, creating
a Dockerfile in the base of your project directory with the line FROM node:onbuild will be enough to create a stand-alone image for your project.
This image does not contain the common packages contained in the default tag and
only contains the minimal packages needed to run node. Unless you are working
in an environment where only the Node.js image will be deployed and you have
space constraints, we highly recommend using the default image of this
repository.
License information for the software contained in this image. License information for the Node.js Docker project.
This image is officially supported on Docker version 1.8.3.
Support for older versions (down to 1.0) is provided on a best-effort basis.
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