无法在Windows的节点容器中运行示例Express应用

Question

I'm watching a Docker course from Pluralsight and I need to run a Docker source on a Docker container I just downloaded.

Even though I have package.json file in the current path, it is not recognized.

Usuario@RE MINGW64 /d/node/ExpressSite
$ docker run -p 8080:3000 -v /$(pwd):/var/www -w "/var/www" node:4.4.5 npm start
npm info it worked if it ends with ok
npm info using npm@2.15.5
npm info using node@v4.4.5
npm ERR! Linux 4.4.12-boot2docker
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start"
npm ERR! node v4.4.5
npm ERR! npm  v2.15.5
npm ERR! path /var/www/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall open

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/www/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /var/www/npm-debug.log

Why the Pluralsight does the same and it works? What's wrong with my version?

Answer 1

From official docs https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/containers/dockervolumes/ :

If you are using Docker Machine on Mac or Windows, your Engine daemon has only limited access to your OS X or Windows filesystem. Docker Machine tries to auto-share your /Users (OS X) or C:\\Users (Windows) directory. So, you can mount files or directories on OS X using.

docker run -v /Users/<path>:/<container path> ...

On Windows, mount directories using:

docker run -v /c/Users/<path>:/<container path> ...

So, you can create a directory inside C:\\Users\\<your_username> ( code for example) with your code and mount it inside the container like so:

docker run -p 8080:3000 -v /c/Users/<your_username>/code:/var/www -w "/var/www" node:4.4.5 npm start

Please note that your code will be available inside the container in /var/www/ directory

pwd returns /c/Users/<my_username> . Try it yourself in Docker terminal.

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You can use pwd for convenience sake:

docker run -p 8080:3000 -v $(pwd)/code:/var/www -w "/var/www" node:4.4.5 npm start

Good luck with the course and Dockerize all the things!