Docker Volume Local Directory setup helps make the development workflow a lot better for developers. We see how it can be achieved with a simple step.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. In this post, we will look at setting up a Docker volume local directory for a Docker container. In order to demonstrate the same, we will use the example of a React application running in our Docker container. The advantage of enabling Docker volumes is that it allows us to share data between the host and the Docker container. A typical example in the case of React application could be that when we update our code in the application, the changes automatically gets reflected in the running Docker container. Basically, this allows developers to test their incremental changes directly on a running container. We already set up a Docker local development workflow for React earlier. Therefore, we will use it as a base for this post. Docker volumes provide a way for us to map the file system inside the container to the file system of the host machine.
