Why

• Portability: move seamlessly across operating systems and be productive immediately with minimal time wasted on setup and configuration
• Dependency management: avoid breaking changes in the complex interdependencies across CLI tools by applying updates in a sandbox
• Experimentation: be as destructive or radical as you like as you try out different tools or ways of working without the risk of breaking your existing setup
• Isolation: achieve greater isolation-- in theory you could be working on the same codebase in two different IDE containers with different sets of project dependencies installed

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Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/circld/cli_ide && cd cli_ide

$ docker build . -t cli_dev:latest

Usage

For an ephemeral development environment:

$ docker run --name cli_ide --rm -it --mount type=bind,src=(pwd),dst=/src cli_dev:latest

Or with this fish utility function:

$ dev --help

TODO

Near-term

• centos7-based images
  • set perms for tldr
  • troubleshoot vim-clap grep2 behavior
• does musl tldr static binary work for alpine-based container?
• use as daily driver to assess usability/perf/usefulness

Longer-term

• experiment with including fisher and fzf.fish
• do i want node/npm as dependencies (used for a variety of language servers)
• add specific versions to installs for a more deterministic build
• expose a range of ports (but then... cannot be interactive? think this through)
  • take port mappings as an optional argument
• should the default user really be root?
  • https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
  • https://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/create-home-directory-existing-user-linux/
  • https://medium.com/better-programming/docker-best-practices-and-anti-patterns-e7cbccba4f19
• install linters and fixers
  • longer-term: consider creating language-specific images using cli_dev as a base (update Installation section above)
• how to handle pyenv?
  • if installing, check https://github.com/jfloff/alpine-python for ideas
  • otherwise, address .spacevim and config.fish references to pyenv
• optimize image size
  • build dependency identification and cleanup
  • python/intermediate artifact cleanup