Both Docker and Node.js have risen in popularity in the past 5 years. Running Node.js on docker containers with docker-compose for local development is a great experience. In this step-by-step tutorial, we will look at how Node.js docker and docker-compose with multi-stage docker build work in sync. Time to get cracking!

There are multiple good reasons to build Node.js microservices, this post discusses 5 of the potent ones. Node.js and microservices are a match made in modern software engineering heaven. Let’s analyze further why Node.js microservices makes more sense.

When I first thought about taking a social media break I thought it would be difficult. On the contrary, a 30-day social media break that I took proved to be quite satisfying.

In this post, we will look at how to take a social media break in 4 steps where you have more chances of becoming successful at it.

In this post, we will see a docker build example of a node js API application starting from slow and ending up in a ~10x faster build. I have already talked about the reasons to use docker for development environment. I have also mentioned how docker changed the way we software engineers work and multi-stage docker build in past posts. For this one let’s focus on the docker build example with faster build in mind.

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