Prequisites

Local workstation requirements

You can work directly from your workstation. Make sure you have the following tools available:

An editor suitable for coding, e.g. Atom, Visual Studio Code or Sublime Text
ibmcloud
git
node (should come with npm)

On a Mac we recommend using Homebrew to install these tools.

Application requirements

Please make sure that your application satisfies the following requirements

You have a running setup using docker-compose
The access (hostname, username, password, …) to your Redis and NoSQL database are configurable through environment variables
Your Dockerfile contains EXPOSE 3000
Your project contains a .dockerignore file which excludes all .git folders and files