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How To Setup Your Local Node.js Development Environment Using Docker – Part

In this article we’ll take a look at creating and running a development image where we can compile, add modules and debug our application all inside of a container.

We’ll also take a quick look at using Docker Compose to help streamline the processes of setting up and running a full microservices application locally on your development machine.

A development image is an image that has all the tools that you need to develop and compile your application with.

Let’s create a development image that we can use to run our node.js application inside of. Create a local directory on your development machine that we can use as a working directory to save our Dockerfile and any other files that we’ll need for our development image.