devc: A convenient wrapper around the devcontainer-cli

Features

• A tui interface based on gum
• Automatically handles removal of containers, images, and volumes created by the cli
• Adds the following new functionality
  • shell: Starts a shell in the devcontainer at the workspace directory
  • edit: A quick shortcut for opening your devcontainer.json with your favorite editor (Be sure to export EDITOR for this functionality)
  • kill: Does a full shutdown and removal of the current devcontainer
  • restart: Does a quick reboot of the devcontainer
  • rebuild: Kills the devcontainer and starts a new one from scratch

Installation

• Install the following dependencies:

  • jq
  • gum
  • devcontainer

• Update the makefile with your desired installation directory and command name

• Run make install

Usage

devc [command]

Available commands:

• up : Starts the dev-container
• exec : Runs a single command in the container
• background : Same as exec in the background
• edit : Opens the .devcontainer/devcontainer.json in your $EDITOR
• shell : Starts an interactive shell in the container at the workspace folder
• stop : Stops the container without removing it
• kill : Removes the container, image, and volume for the container
• restart : Reboots the container
• rebuild : Equivalent to kill + up