diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
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+**/.classpath
+**/.dockerignore
+**/.env
+**/.git
+**/.gitattributes
+**/.gitignore
+**/.github
+**/.project
+**/.settings
+**/.toolstarget
+**/.vs
+**/.vscode
+**/.next
+**/.cache
+**/*.*proj.user
+**/*.dbmdl
+**/*.jfm
+**/charts
+**/docker-compose*
+**/compose.y*ml
+**/Dockerfile*
+**/node_modules
+**/npm-debug.log
+**/obj
+**/secrets.dev.yaml
+**/values.dev.yaml
+**/build
+**/dist
+LICENSE
+README.md
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+ARG NODE_VERSION=18.0.0
+
+FROM node:${NODE_VERSION}
+
+WORKDIR /usr/src/app
+
+RUN --mount=type=bind,source=package.json,target=package.json \
+    --mount=type=bind,source=package-lock.json,target=package-lock.json \
+    --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.npm \
+    npm ci
+
+COPY . .
+
+EXPOSE 8000
+CMD npm run start
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# Pipe-Bomb-Server
+### Docker instructions
+Before we run the server you will have to build the pipe bomb docker image by doing;
+```
+$ docker build -t "pipe-bomb-server" .
+```
+After the image is built you want to find a place to put the container in, personally I will do it in `~/docker/pipe-bomb-server`. In the directory of your choosing make a `compose.yml` file which should look something like this.
+```yaml
+services:
+  pipe-bomb-server:
+    image: pipe-bomb-server
+    container_name: pipe-bomb-server
+    ports:
+      - "8000:8000"
+    # volumes:
+    #   - ./Config.json:/usr/src/app/Config.json
+    #   # the database has a volume incase you want to move/backup or do anything else with the files
+    #   - ./database/music.db:/usr/src/app/music.db
+    #   - ./database/music.db-smh:/usr/src/app/music.db-shm
+    #   - ./database/music.db-wal:/usr/src/app/music.db-wal
+    restart: unless-stopped
+```
+Keep the volumes commented out at first so we can let pipe bomb generate the files needed for the volumes, to let pipe bomb generate them run the following command.
+```
+$ docker compose up
+```
+When you see something like the line `API is listening on ___` it's done staring up and generating the files, you can now safely do `CTRL-c` to stop the server. Now we can uncomment the volumes but before we can run it again we must copy the generated files over.
+```
+$ docker cp pipe-bomb-server:/usr/src/app/Config.json .
+$ mkdir database
+$ docker cp pipe-bomb-server:/usr/src/app/music.db ./database/music.db
+$ docker cp pipe-bomb-server:/usr/src/app/music.db-shm ./database/music.db-shm
+$ docker cp pipe-bomb-server:/usr/src/app/music.db-wal ./database/music.db-wal
+```
+Feel free to edit the config as you like and once you are done with that you can run the server by doing this command (-d will run it in the background)
+```
+$ docker compose up
+```