Node Express Quickstart

This is a Node Express Quickstart for Nullstone. This is based on the Express official Hello World.

This uses the Nullstone official nullstone/node image.

How to launch via Nullstone

1. Create a public web app. (Remember app-name for later)
2. Provision

nullstone up --wait --block=<app-name> --env=<env-name>

3. Build, push, and deploy

docker build -t express .
nullstone launch --source=express --app=<app-name> --env=<env-name>

How to run locally

You can run this project locally inside Docker or using node alone. To use docker, this project contains docker-compose.yml that runs with NODE_ENV=development. This setup ensures that using Docker doesn't inhibit typical development workflows:

• Dependencies are installed on boot of docker container

docker compose up

Visit http://localhost:9000.

Update dependencies

Any time you change package.json, you need to update your dependencies. The dependencies will be installed on boot of the docker container; restart the container to update.

docker compose restart app

Details about quickstart

This app was generated following these steps.

1. yarn init
2. yarn add express
3. Copy app.js from Hello World example.