Docker image for MERN development

Run MERN stack along with fully loaded tmux and vim.

Use this only for development purposes.

Overview

This docker image is useful when you have a powerful server that can be shared among multiple developers. A preloaded [fixuid] (https://github.com/boxboat/fixuid) is configured to handle the file permissions issues within the container.

Credentials

This image creates a dev user for your development projects.

Use your own uid and gid to execute the docker container. Share your source code by using docker volumes.

docker run --rm -it -u 1003:1003 <image name> sh

On linux:

docker run --rm -it -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -v ./Projects:/home/dev/Projects <image name> sh

You can append commands to the .profile, .tmux.conf and init.vim files by attaching a folder to /home/dev/.additions volume.

• .profile .additions/profile
• .tmux.conf .additions/tmux.conf
• init.vim .additions/vimrc

Docker hub tags

You can use following tags on Docker hub:

• latest - latest stable release

Usage with docker-compose

Have a look at the companion composer file docker-composer-mern-dev to find how we use this docker image.

Issues

Please report any issues with the Docker container to https://github.com/jalian-systems/docker-mern-dev/issues