Containerizing a Slack Clone App Built with the MERN Stack

Prerequisite

• MongoDB
• Express
• React.js
• Node
• Docker Desktop

Getting Started

Cloning the repository

 git clone https://github.com/dockersamples/slack-clone-docker

Building the Service containers

 docker compose up -d —build

 docker compose ps
               Name                             Command               State            Ports        -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
slack-clone-docker_db_1              docker-entrypoint.sh mongod      Up      0.0.0.0:27017->27017/tcp
slack-clone-docker_nodebackend_1     docker-entrypoint.sh node  ...   Up      0.0.0.0:9000->9000/tcp 
slack-clone-docker_slackfrontend_1   docker-entrypoint.sh yarn  ...   Up 

Viewing the containers via Docker Dashboard

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