This is an example app to show you how to implement Docker with MongoDB and NextJS.
Clone the repo and run the following commands:
npm install
docker-compose up -d
Once you're done, run the following:
docker-compose down
Then navigate to localhost:3000 in your browser.
This app is a basic note taking app that only allows numbers as an input. To create a new record, click on the empty input box at the bottom.
To execute a Create or an Update, write the new value in the input box and then click out of it. The loss of focus will fire an event that will
I used Next.JS in this application for Static Rendering and general ease of use - their API Routes feature is amazing and simple.
For the API layer, I used GraphQL with Apollo, because I believe it is a much better solution than REST.
The database being used is Mongo. I decided not to use an ORM because that was overkill, and I'm kinda on the fence re ORM's.
A Docker container is created for both the Next.JS app and the Mongo database, and networking is set up so that the app can query the DB.
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