Create a Devcontainer

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• ❓ What’s a devcontainer
• 🏗 Create your own devcontainer
• 🔗 Devcontainer with docker-compose

❓ What’s a devcontainer

A devcontainer is a feature that lets you run docker containers locally for development. This brings a lot of advantages! I listed a few here:

• Useful for bigger groups
• Doesn’t matter what operating system, version or compatability your local device has. (It’s built for that purpose!)
• Fast and secure

🏗 Create your own devcontainer

FYI: For this part some docker knowledge is required and is not getting teached.

Now in this example let’s create a simple and small NodeJS devcontainer

We start with creating a .devcontainer folder in the root directory of our project.

All we need more for our devcontainer are two more files. The devcontainer.json for configs and a default Dockerfile. devcontainer.json

{
    "name": "YourProjectName",
    "build": {
        "dockerfile": "Dockerfile"
    },
    "settings": {
        "terminal.integrated.profiles.linux": {
            "zsh": {
                "path"…