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The main focus is configuring nginx as a reverse proxy within a Docker Compose setup to serve a React frontend (built into static files) and proxy API requests to a Node.js/Express backend. The session covers multi-stage Docker builds, separating database migration from the API server service, debugging nginx upstream directives, and planning a PostgreSQL database dump/restore workflow for migrating from the existing droplet to the new dockerized setup. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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