How I Self-Hosted a Production-Ready NATS Server on Dokploy in 5 Minutes

I wanted a message broker for a side project without paying for managed Kafka or wrestling with RabbitMQ clustering. NATS was the obvious answer—until I tried wiring up JetStream, token auth, WebSocket for the browser, and Traefik routing on my own. So I packaged the whole thing as a Dokploy Compose template. The Problem Spinning up NATS sounds easy until you actually need it in production: nats.conf syntax is fine, but plumbing env vars through Docker Compose takes trial and error Browser clien