--- title: "Best practices for using Node with Docker" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 371 published_at: "2021-01-14" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/371" --- Plus code-free Node development, an HTML presentation builder, and some Node jobs. | #371 — January 14, 2021 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/371) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/diepnmtte7h2eg58j52v.jpg)](https://blog.sindresorhus.com/get-ready-for-esm-aa53530b3f77) [Get Ready For ESM](https://blog.sindresorhus.com/get-ready-for-esm-aa53530b3f77) — ES modules are rapidly becoming a day to day reality for Node.js package maintainers, so spare a thought for Sindre who has about 20 million packages (_slight exaggeration!_) to his name. Sindre shares some basics on why it’s important, the benefits, and what his plans are. Sindre Sorhus [Ten Best Practices to Containerize Node Web Apps with Docker](https://snyk.io/blog/10-best-practices-to-containerize-nodejs-web-applications-with-docker/) — Production-grade guidelines for building optimized and secure Node-based Docker images whether for microservices, server-side rendering, or stand alone apps. Liran Tal and Yoni Goldberg [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/890ea33b.png)](https://squareup.com/t/f_online/d_newsletter/p_nodeweekly/l_us/dt_alldevice/pr_ecommerce_api/?route=/explorer/square&site=developer.squareup.com) [Simplify Ecommerce App Development with Node.js + Square 💚](https://squareup.com/t/f_online/d_newsletter/p_nodeweekly/l_us/dt_alldevice/pr_ecommerce_api/?route=/explorer/square&site=developer.squareup.com) — The Square Node.js SDK with TypeScript support makes it easy to build ecommerce apps in Node.js. Start taking payments, manage a product catalog, organize employees, track orders, and more with Square’s APIs. 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Hired 📗 **Tutorials and Stories** [Use Node.js with Docker and Docker Compose for a Better Developer Experience](https://blog.logrocket.com/node-js-docker-improve-dx/) — You can bring Node and Docker together to create a more seamless local development environment as demonstrated here. Geshan Manandhar [Serverless Nest.js Micro-Services and Integrations without HTTP](https://medium.com/capmo-stories/serverless-nest-js-micro-services-integrations-without-http-42f453236b39) — You’ve got a Node app, you want to take it serverless.. you use API Gateway and have your Node app spin up an HTTP server and work through that, right? Nope, there’s a more direct way to do it. Sebastian Schlecht [A Basic Introduction to Server Sent Events](https://iabhishek.dev/post/an-intro-to-server-sent-events) — Learn how to use [server sent events (SSE)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events) to build unidirectional communication channel between clients and server for real-time apps. 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Nuno Brites 🛠 Code and Tools supported by [![Okta\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/v1602154330/de7dtktheistsfpqdem4.png)](https://developer.okta.com/?utm_campaign=newsletter_cooperpress_all_multiple_inc_dev_sponsored-section_null&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=cpc) [Backslide: A CLI Tool for Making HTML Presentations with Remark.js](https://github.com/sinedied/backslide) — Want to make presentation slides with Markdown and Sass, complete with a live preview server and PDF conversion? Check this out. There’s an [example presentation here](https://sinedied.github.io/backslide/#1). Yohan Lasorsa [ow: Function Argument Validation for Humans](https://github.com/sindresorhus/ow) — A fluent API to define constraints for function arguments (e.g. `ow(input, ow.string.minLength(5))`) and get nice error messages if those validations fail. Sindre Sorhus [Trio: Simple Static Site Generation](https://gettriossg.com/) — An ‘almost’ zero-config tool that doesn’t require frameworks or templating languages (you ‘decorate’ your HTML instead – [e.g.](https://gettriossg.com/docs/v4/template/)). It caches every project asset per build, and only generates stale assets when building incrementally, dramatically reducing build times. Jeffrey Schwartz [Keystone: A Node CMS and Webapp Framework](https://keystonejs.com/) — A headless CMS built with GraphQL and React. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone). KeystoneJS [Video for Your Node App That Streams Beautifully, Everywhere](https://get.mux.com/35xECL3) Mux sponsor [qs: A Query String Parser with Nesting Support](https://github.com/ljharb/qs) — Where ‘query string’ means the string of names and values you might find on the end of a URL. 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