[Docker] lesson 11 < section 6 (Running Multi-container Applications) - alternative solution to watch changes

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Hi,

instead of running in your host machine npm i ( because by binding your host machine files to container you lose node_modules, to prevent that, beside to bind to /app (with name volume)
you need anonymous volume to keep the the node_module folder ( the problem is similar to lesson 11 of section 5)

so in docker-compose (was update frontend and api services):

version: '3.8'

services:
  web:
    build: ./frontend
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
    volumes:
      # keep node_modules folder with anonymous volume
      - /app/node_modules
      # bind volume to your host
      - ./frontend:/app

  api:
    build: ./backend
    ports:
      - 3001:3001
    environment:
      DB_URL: mongodb://db/vidly
    volumes:
      # keep node_modules folder with anonymous volume
      - /app/node_modules
      # bind volume to your host
      - ./backend:/app

  db:
    image: mongo:4.0-xenial
    ports:
      - 27017:27017
    volumes:
      - vidly:/data/db

volumes:
  vidly:
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Thank you for this workaround! This definitely seems more ideal than installing deps on the host machine. And I can confirm that it works flawlessly!

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Thank you so muuuuuuuuuuuuch!