Why I use docker for my web dev projects

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[raymondfinton]

The amount of technologies developers are expected to know is simply staggering to me at times. Your videos do a great service to anyone struggling to get into this industry. Keep posting!

[st-jngk]

you're the most chill, person I've ever seen on youtube. I hope you keep posting forever. ❤

[nowieszco]

I really like that you teach with very high quality. Many programming youtubers doesn't care about this and targets only very beginmers. With your tutorials it's possible to find useful things, not only for beginners. Gj man!

[ericwilson]

I just started on my first collaborative project and this was the exact video I needed to get started with docker quickly. Thank you!

[banoulka]

I was always putting off trying docker because I thought it was hella complex and required a ton of config files but thank you for this!! Has really opened my eyes about how I can get started easily :)

[FA--X]

Finally a video that explains docker in a way that is easy to understand. I already had a idea but this really made me understand everything better

[hunterbertoson]

Docker is very nice. Once we start dockering our web app at work. It made developing so much easier.

[vicyoslinuxofficial]

Bruh, I'm new to programing and your simple explanation of a .yaml file was amazing!
Thank you for the video!

[sheldonfourie]

just love your videos, we need more like this on why

[lukewestondev]

I love how it takes any surprises away from running on your dev environment vs production

[bluursito]

I recently started to use vagrant for class and i didnt even think about how powerful it was until i copied a few strings and with that 2 machines with a database and web environment were made in less than 1 minute ready to play and i just love this kind of stuff.

[techworld]

you are awesome. you are my favourite tech youtuber now

[rumonintokyo]

Been following your channel for sometime. You are one of the few youtubers that cover a wide array of topics for web development and nowadays you even post leetcode problem solving videos. Tbh i really enjoy your format of videos cuz I feel its more towards real life job and what developers experience in their day to day life as an engineer. So I wanted to know what is your learning process like and how do u keep learning so many technologies and keep up to date at a fast pace. Also, I was wondering whether you learnt most of these tech stacks and frameworks from your job or do u usually self-teach yourself to make videos.
Again, Big Fan!

[levyroth]

I 100% agree this is the right approach to teach web dev nowadays.

[tgeorg]

Planetscale works really well too, devs can make a db that branches off another dev db and connect to that. They can discard it and branch off another one again with ease. Prisma push commands work perfectly. It is a paid option though and is hosted externally, but it is still quick and could be worth it for teams. Oh and MySQL only, no PostgreSQL option

[Goyo_MGC]

I also really like to use docker in development to share external tools with my team( database, keycloak, mailhog to name a few usefull tools). However on don't find docker as mandatory on side projects. It can get a little hard to find places to run containers for free as it usually use much more ressources. Great Video nonetheless :)

[zeph]

Hey Cody, you're a fountain of knowledge and I thank you for your videos.

I just started learning Docker and I understand how to Dockerize stuff with Dockerfiles, volumes, and Docker compose, but I was also shown that containerizing your entire development setup is also possible.

This works by making a Volume link to the host's current project directory with the container's current directory to share files and build.

Is this a good idea for smaller teams? I like your setup because it requires less setup by just starting up your containerized services THEN running npm run dev/start

[andrewlee]

Hi, is it necessary to also dockerize the nextjs application together with the postgres image?

[thegrumpydeveloper]

Used to not do this because of compile speed problems with so many node modules but maybe swc/esbuild have made it so that doesn’t matter so much any more?

[memeproductions]

You still have to create the db and tables right?do you do it by entering inside the container?