Basic outline of a Tornado web app.

• Install Docker

• Build the nginx base image cd setup/docker-base/nginx and then docker build -t app_nginx .
• Build the base Python image cd setup/docker-base/nginx and then docker built -d app_python

These images install all of the dependancies for the JavaScript front-end client, and the Python application respectively. By creating separate dependency images we don't need to re-download and re-compile when we want to rebuild the application containers. The main containers should only copy our code over.

• From the root run docker-compose build
• Run docker-compose up

• handlers/ - This directory contains all of the Python/Tornado API code.
• jsclient/ - Code and files pertaining to the JavaScript front-end
  • app/ - Backbone.js application code
  • handlebars/ - Handlebars HTML templates
  • nginx/ - Nginx configuration files
  • static/ - Static resources not managed by bower
  • tasks/ - Grunt task code
  • bower.json - Bower dependancies
  • Dockerfile - Dockerfile for JavaScript front-end/Nginx
  • Gruntfile.js - Grunt task runner script
  • package.json - NPM dependancies
• libs/ - Generic re-usable Python code
• models/ - Python database models
• setup/ - Python code used for database setup, and initialization