Example to-do List Application

This repository is a simple to-do list manager that runs on Node.js.

Getting started

Download Docker Desktop for Mac or Windows. Docker Compose will be automatically installed. On Linux, make sure you have the latest version of Compose.

Clone the repository

Open a terminal and clone this sample application.

 git clone https://github.com/dockersamples/todo-list-app

Run the app

Navigate into the todo-list-app directory:

docker compose up -d --build

When you run this command, you should see an output like this:

[+] Running 4/4
✔ app 3 layers [⣿⣿⣿]      0B/0B            Pulled           7.1s
  ✔ e6f4e57cc59e Download complete                          0.9s
  ✔ df998480d81d Download complete                          1.0s
  ✔ 31e174fedd23 Download complete                          2.5s
[+] Running 2/4
  ⠸ Network todo-list-app_default           Created         0.3s
  ⠸ Volume "todo-list-app_todo-mysql-data"  Created         0.3s
  ✔ Container todo-list-app-app-1           Started         0.3s
  ✔ Container todo-list-app-mysql-1         Started         0.3s

List the services

docker compose ps
NAME                    IMAGE            COMMAND                  SERVICE   CREATED          STATUS          PORTS
todo-list-app-app-1     node:18-alpine   "docker-entrypoint.s…"   app       24 seconds ago   Up 7 seconds    127.0.0.1:3000->3000/tcp
todo-list-app-mysql-1   mysql:8.0        "docker-entrypoint.s…"   mysql     24 seconds ago   Up 23 seconds   3306/tcp, 33060/tcp

If you look at the Docker Desktop GUI, you can see the containers and dive deeper into their configuration.

Access the app

The to-do list app will be running at http://localhost:3000.