This is a Docker container for developers that bundles everything that is needed to run the SlideWiki Platform. The actual code of the app is mounted into a volume from the host system.
The easiest way to run the development container is via the provided shell script:
./start-server /absolute/path/to/slidewiki-platform
The development container is named swdev. You can use the usual docker commands to control the container:
docker stop swdev
docker restart swdev
When the container is first initialized npm is started to install the dependencies. This creates the node_modules directory inside your SlideWiki project directory. Because the container is run by the Docker daemon the node_modules directory is owned by root. You need to use sudo to remove this directory.
For the time being this image works only under Linux and MacOS. This is due to a problem with npm trying to link directories within node_modules. Since Windows doesn't support file system links this operation fails and the dependencies are not correctly initialized (https://slidewiki.atlassian.net/browse/SWIK-242).