App seems to boot up, but can't access

[ZempTime]

Hey! Brand new to docker.

Running:

• MacOS High Sierra 10.13.3 (17D47)
• Completely unmodified clone of the latest version of this repo
• Docker version 18.04.0-ce, build 3d479c0
• docker-compose version 1.21.2, build unknown

When I run docker-compose up, everything seems to execute successfully, and I arrive at this line:

api_1    | Finished 'build' after 1811ms
api_1    | Node.js API server is listening on http://api:8080/

But when I try to access it through chrome in my browser - http://localhost:8080/ - I don't get anything. Not sure what to do next, or where I'm messing up.

[shadowbrush]

Maybe do a docker ps -a and see if port 8080 is listed there.

[ZempTime]

That gives me:

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

This seems promising! Not sure why the docker daemon isn't running, and next step for me is to figure out a way for that to happen

[shadowbrush]

Is Docker running? Check the Docker whale icon in the MacOS bar.

[ZempTime]

I don't think it was. I just completely uninstalled all previous docker things I added via homebrew, then reinstalled them from what look like the most standard means (dl'ing from docker site). Rebuilding now, whale icon is there, fairly confident this will work.

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it is! thanks for your prompts @shadowbrush , much appreciated because I probably woulda been stuck without you. Closing this issue!