Npm is an excellent package manager for JavaScript and for sure it’s the first choice when it comes to managing packages and dependencies, but sometimes we just need to install a library from GitHub.

Npm packages are extremely useful for creating reusable pieces of code or for sharing your work with other developers.

After sharing my environment for a node and mongo application, I want to share a less frequent configuration: Node with mysql. Quite rare with a javascript/node stack, but it happens.

As a developer, I often need to quickly build a development environment for small projects and Docker is a very convenient way to have a stable one up and running in no time. Today I want to share my starting point when I have to build an app in node/express and mongoDB.