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Docker has revolutionized how Node.js developers create and deploy applications. But developing a Node.js Docker application can be slow and clunky. The main culprit: the process for testing your code in development.
In this article, we’ll show a tutorial and example on how you can use Docker’s host volumes and nodemon to code faster and radically reduce the time you spend testing.
If you are a developer who uses Docker, odds are you may have heard that you can use volumes to maintain persistent state for your containers in production. But what many developers don’t realize is that volumes can also be an excellent tool for speeding up your development workflow.
In this post, I’ll give you a brief overview of what is a Docker volume, how Docker host volumes work, and show you a tutorial and example of how you can use volumes and nodemon to make coding with Docker easier and faster.