Setup for Node.js Server in Docker Container

Prerequisites

• Vagrant (2.2.7) https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
• VirtualBox (6.0.x) https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
• disable Hyper-V Manager for Windows https://ugetfix.com/ask/how-to-disable-hyper-v-in-windows-10/

Build VM

• in /vm > vagrant up
• vagrant ssh
• sudo apt update
• sudo apt upgrade
• docker -v should show docker version

Build Image for Server-Container

• in VM cd /opt/projects/
• docker build -t <your username>/node-web-app .

Start Container

• docker run -p 49160:8080 -d <your username>/node-web-app

Serve Client-App

On the host machine you can use e.g. VS-Code and the Live-Server-Plugin (Link) to serve the index.html locally.

Pitfalls

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Using umlauts in paths

That might lead to an error like this:

C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.6.0/json/common.rb:156:in `initialize': negative string size (or size too big) (ArgumentError)

Resources

• hashicorp/vagrant#10657

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Not matching guest-additions

On the host respectively the VirtualBox-installation does have another guest-addition installation than the VM that is started with vagrant up, following message might occur:

The guest additions on this VM do not match the installed version of
    default: VirtualBox! In most cases this is fine, but in rare cases it can
    default: prevent things such as shared folders from working properly. If you see
    default: shared folder errors, please make sure the guest additions within the
    default: virtual machine match the version of VirtualBox you have installed on
    default: your host and reload your VM.

Which might help, updating the guest-additions with the following command:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

Reference

• https://nodejs.org/fr/docs/guides/nodejs-docker-webapp/