devcontainer-demo

Create development setup with devcontainer

Devcontainer allows you to develop in an isolated container with all required software pre-installed.

How to set up a devcontainer?

1. Ensure Docker is installed and running
2. Install vscode and Dev Containers extension
3. Install code cli tool: Launch Command Palette and run Install 'code' command in PATH
4. Now open this project in vscode: in your Mac terminal run code /path/to/project
5. Start a devcontainer for the project: Launch Command Palette again and run either Reopen in Container or Rebuild Container.

Run test, start service locally

1. Launch vscode terminal

2. Run lint and test

   make lint
   make test
   

3. Run the following docker-compose command to start the service on localhost:8080

   make service-up