The full tutorial is available on sitepoint.com/docker-windows-10-home. Please check this README for updated instructions .

The app is a plain React application bundled with Parcel.

Use PowerShell with admin privileges to perform all installation instructions using choco. Use Git Bash to run all Docker and Node.js commands without admin privileges.

• Chocolatey Package Manager
• Node.js LTS version. Install via nvm for Windows
• VirtualBox 6.0 - newer versions have a bug
• Git Bash

Once you've installed choco, you can install Docker tools as follows:

choco install docker-machine docker-cli docker-compose -y

Please use VirtualBox 6.0. VirtualBox 6.1.* has a bug that prevents creation of docker-machine instances. After installing VirtualBox and Node.js, use Git Bash to create a new docker-machine instance:

# Create instance
docker-machine create --driver virtualbox default
# Stop instance
docker-machine stop default

Open VirtualBox and find default VM instance. Open the settings and adjust as follows:

• Display Tab: Increase memory to 16MB (simply gets rid of the warning)
• Shared Folders: Docker will properly mount any project under C:\Users directory. To add other directories, simply add a new Shared Folder like this:

In the above example, I have created the folder c:\docker. In order to mount projects located inside this path in Docker, you MUST specify the mount path: /c/docker. Otherwise you'll run into 'NOT FOUND' errors when you try to create a container. If you want to put your projects on another partition such as the D:\ drive, the mount path will be /d/.

• Network Tab: Specify Port Forwarding rules in order to expose application ports.

Start default VM instance and confirm the Shared Folders have been mounted on the correct paths:

# Start docker machine instance
docker-machine start default

# ssh into the instance
docker-machine ssh default

## Check mount
mount
....
# output should include....
/c/Users on /c/Users type vboxsf (rw,nodev,relatime)                      
/c/docker on /c/docker type vboxsf (rw,nodev,relatime) 
...


cd /c/

You should expect the following output:

If you can't access your folder from correct mount path, Docker won't be able to access local files during container creation.

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