This project contains a fresh Sails application (v0.12.0-rc3) using the sails new command. The Dockerfile is configured to use Node.js version 4.0.

You use this repo to develop a new Sails app on your local machine using Docker Compose. Docker compose is a tool that enables you to configure each application or service you want in your system and runs each one in a separate container. Docker protects your development machine from being polluted with extraneous software and enables you to lock-down specific versions of the software used, which eases migration to newer versions of database servers, OSes, etc.

• Fork this repo, then clone to your machine:

  → git clone https://github.com/{github username}/sails-docker-boilerplate.git {myapp-name}

  Replace {github username} and {myapp-name} with your names.

• Install Docker Toolbox. If you have a preferred and trusted way of installing docker tools, that's fine too. As long as you have access to the latest Docker.

TIP: if your development machine has ample RAM and disk space, you can create a virtual machine that is larger than the default. I use:

→ docker-machine create -d virtualbox --virtualbox-cpu-count=4 --virtualbox-disk-size=40960 --virtualbox-memory=4096 default

creates a virtualbox VM at 40GB disk and 4GB RAM with 4 CPU cores

• Add your Docker machine's environment variables for your shell:

  # ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile
  # set Docker environment variables using docker-machine
  test -f /usr/local/bin/docker-machine && eval $($_ env default)

  Then restart your shell. If you're on Windows, good luck!

• Build the Dockerfile:

  → docker-compose build

• Install the node dependencies. This must be done by running NPM inside of the container, since it is a specific flavor of Linux:

  → docker-compose run sails npm install

• If there were no errors in the previous step, you can lift sails:

  → docker-compose up

• And, open the app in your favorite browser on OS/X:

  → open http://$(docker-machine ip default):1337

  this should open up a page that looks like: