Building and Deploying a JavaScript API with Docker

Introduction

This repository is designed to guide you through containerising a JavaScript Express API using Docker.

It also covers instructions for deploying your containerised application to Amazon Web Services.

The application itself is a sample JavaScript ExpressJS API that allows users to manage books.

If you have created your own JavaScript ExpressJS API, the instructions here can also be utilised to containerise and deploy your own application 🙌

Pre-Requisites

• Node (version 18.16.0 is LTS version at time of writing)

For deployment you'll also need:

• An Amazon AWS account

How to Get Started

1. Fork this repo to your Github and then clone the forked version of this repo
2. Work through the activities in the activities folder starting with Activity 1.