Note

Further development of this template is done here: https://github.com/behrica/devcontainer-templates

A template project featuring a devcontainer setup for Datascience with Clojure using several libraries from scicloj

It sets up an dev container environment with several tool s and libaries for datascience in Clojure.

Quickstart

1. Create a new GitHub repository based on this template
2. Clone and open repository with VSCode / devpod / Codespaces and trigger/wait for container build
3. "jack in" inside the devcontainer
4. Enjoy Clojure and R + python from Clojure (using ClojisR + libpython-clj)

Customization

5. Customize libraries

   • deps.edn: add Clojure + Java libraries
   • pyproject.toml: add python libraries into poetry config file
   • devcontainer.json: add R libraries (see r-packages

6. (Install more features in devcontainer: https://containers.dev/features)

7. (Remove things you don't need)

Installed inside devcontainer

The provided devcontainer.json installs in the devcontainer:

• Clojure (incl. clojisr and libpython-clj)

• Python (packages can be added vi calling "pip" in devcontainer.json)

• R (packages can be added in devcontainer.json)

  • rstudio-server

• deps.edn with Clojure libraries for Data science from scicloj

• noVNC + lite desktop incl port forwarding

• Emacs

• quarto cli

• docker-in-docker

• leiningen

• babashka

• lsp

Graphical Emacs in web-noVNC

In the default settings, we will get a vanilla Emacs running in noVNC. The Emacs setup can be configured via providing a specific script in a fixed location , which can be most easly done using the dotfile support of devcontainer.

See here: dotfiles

If there is a file in /home/vscode/.setup-ide/setup-ide.sh it will be executed after container creation. This can do "whatever" to configure Emacs from your own configuration. (Baically the script can do everything on the build container.)

My setup-ide.sh configures Doom Emacs with my personal configuration.