Docker

Xest framework uses Docker to manage local development environment. Docker is a tool designed to make it easier to create, deploy and run applications by using containers and images.

Xest runs a MySQL container using Docker for local development. This MySQL container is initialized with the schema file database-schema.sql and also the test seed data file seed-data.sql.

If at any point, you make changes to these .sql files. You can restart your local development environment by running xx fresh.

Installing Docker

If you have already installed Docker recently, you can skip the installation instructions below.

You can check whether you already have Docker installed by running

docker --version

Ubuntu

Update your software database:

sudo apt update

Remove any old versions of docker that might be on your system:

sudo apt remove docker docker-engine docker.io

Install docker:

sudo apt install docker.io

Check docker version:

docker --version

Windows and Mac

Docker requires a Linux kernel in order to run. This can be emulated on Windows and Mac. The easiest way to do this is to install Docker Desktop. You will need to have Docker Desktop running in order to use docker commands in your terminal.