shinymayhem/node repository overview

##Description Basic Node JS server template

##Usage

• Run by itself or as a parent docker image, exposes volume /var/www as code directory
• Set COPY_TO_VOLUME to false if contents should not be overwritten (useful in development)
• Set INDEX_DIR to location of index.js, if not /var/www (useful in development)
• Contents of /opt/node copied to volume at runtime when run.sh is executed
• Runs nodemon ${INDEX_DIR}/index.js by default, exposes port 80

##onbuild tag Build an app and run it out of the box.

• Base the child image on shinymayhem/node:onbuild
• Place app code in src/ at build-root
  • Add src/index.js, which is run by default
  • Add src/package.json for npm install, which runs during build
• Build app and run as normal

##Debugging

• Run debugger web server listening in background with node-inspector --web-port 8080 > /dev/null 2>&1 &, or run in separate screen (not sure how to suppress output)
• Start script with debugging enabled, e.g. node debug index.js
• Go to server.com:8080/?port=5858 to see debugger window, run script to start server
• Replicate the conditions at server.com under which the debugger should break (note: might be unable to set breakpoints in anonymous functions until they have been declared, i.e. when server has started)