1mamute/dev-container-javascript repository overview

⁠dev-container-javascript

Personal container environment for javascript/typescript development.

• Ubuntu 20.04 base image
• Essentials packages
• Creates a user (jsdev as default) and add its to sudoers group
• nvm for managing multiple node versions
• Installs latest nodejs and nodejs-lts (uses nodejs-lts as default)
• Essentials js/ts npm packages and yarn

Stop bloating your machine with packages and dependencies, code inside the Docker container! Everything is isolated, controlled, 100% customizable and it's reusable or disposable (if you want).

Read the Dockerfile! There's useful comments there. (actually you should always read any scripts you download from the internet :P)

This is not a Docker image for production/release!

⁠How to use it

• Docker: Make sure you have docker installed and running in your machine. Some great resources:

  • Docker Official Documentation⁠
  • How To Install and Use Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 by Brian Hogan⁠
  • Docker Wiki Page from Alpine Wiki⁠
  • Get started using Visual Studio Code with Windows Subsystem for Linux by Microsoft Docs⁠
  • Get started with Docker remote containers on WSL 2 by Microsoft⁠

• Manual: Clone the repository, make your changes to the Dockerfile, build, run and attach your shell and/or VSCode (using Remote - Container Extension⁠) to the container

  The --build-arg determine the users configuration. If you don't pass any --build-arg it will use jsdev as default user/pwd. You can also use your currently logged user if you pass --build-arg USER=$USER and --build-arg PW=YOURPASSWORDHERE

  git clone https://github.com/1mamute/dev-container-javascript.git
  cd dev-container-javascript
  docker build --build-arg USER=jsdev \
               --build-arg UID=1000 \
               --build-arg GID=1000 \
               --build-arg PW=jsdev \
               --tag dev-container-javascript:latest .
  docker run -it -u jsdev dev-container-javascript:latest /bin/bash
  

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• Docker Hub: Pull the image from DockerHub, run and attach your shell and/or VSCode (using Remote - Container Extension⁠) to the container

  docker pull 1mamute/dev-container-javascript:latest
  docker run -it -u jsdev 1mamute/dev-container-javascript:latest /bin/bash
  

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⁠TODO:

• Mount a volume to persist the storage from the container
• Create a devcontainer.json configuration
• Support multiple versions of Node with nvm (done)
• Setup a user inside the container so we won't always be using the root user (done)