How to restart a single container with docker-compose

Question

I have a docker-compose.yml file that contains 4 containers: redis, postgres, api, worker

During the development of worker, I often need to restart it i

Answer 1

Since some of the other answers include info on rebuilding, and my use case also required a rebuild, I had a better solution (compared to those).

There's still a way to easily target just the one single worker container that both rebuilds + restarts it in a single line, albeit it's not actually a single command. The best solution for me was simply rebuild and restart:

docker-compose build worker && docker-compose restart worker

This accomplishes both major goals at once for me:

1. Targets the single worker container
2. Rebuilds and restarts it in a single line

Hope this helps anyone else getting here.