#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Uses the user's Bash interpreter to run this script

set -e
# Stops the script immediately if any command fails

echo "Stopping application services..."
# Prints a message so the user knows the shutdown process has started

docker compose stop
# Stops the running containers defined in docker-compose.yml
# The containers are stopped but not deleted

echo "Application stopped."
# Confirms that the application services were stopped successfully

echo "State is preserved because containers were stopped, not removed."
# Explains that data and container state are still kept
# because stop does not remove containers or volumes