Node Dev Container

Ultimate NodeJS development container for Visual Studio Code

Features

• Based on qmcgaw/basedevcontainer:
  • Alpine 3.19 with minimal custom terminal and packages
  • Nodejs, npm and yarn downloaded as Alpine packages
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  • Minimal custom terminal and packages
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• Globally installed: nodemon and jest
• Cross platform
  • Easily bind mount your SSH keys to use with git
  • Manage your host Docker from within the dev container, more details at qmcgaw/basedevcontainer
• Extensible with docker-compose.yml
• 'Minimal' size of 535MB
• Comes with extra Go binary tools for a few extra MBs: kubectl, kubectx, kubens, stern and helm

Requirements

• Docker installed and running
  • If you don't use Linux or Windows with WSL, share the directory ~/.ssh and the directory of your project with Docker Desktop
• Docker Compose installed
• VS code installed
• VS code remote containers extension installed

Setup for a project

1. Setup your configuration files

   • With style 💯

     docker run -it --rm -v "/yourrepopath:/repository" qmcgaw/devtainr:v0.2.0 -dev node -path /repository -name projectname

     Or use the built binary

   • Or manually: download this repository and put the .devcontainer directory in your project.

2. If you have a .vscode/settings.json, eventually move the settings to .devcontainer/devcontainer.json in the "settings" section as .vscode/settings.json take precedence over the settings defined in .devcontainer/devcontainer.json.
3. Open the command palette in Visual Studio Code (CTRL+SHIFT+P) and select Remote-Containers: Open Folder in Container... and choose your project directory

Customization

See the .devcontainer/README.md document in your repository.

License

This repository is under an MIT license unless indicated otherwise.