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What you’ve learned in this chapter:

  1. Building your own production-level Docker image with a Dockerfile.
  2. Launching a container from that image in both production and development environments.
  3. Using Docker Compose for easier development.
  4. Auto-restarting a Node.js application when mounted files change.
  5. Debugging an application running in a container.

In the next chapter, you will push the Docker image you have just created to Docker Hub … and discover why that could be useful.

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