Development Environments as Code

Why

• Setup the development environment in a “One click”
• leagacy projects need different packages and host IDE may not intergrate well (linters, formatters, etc)
• make debugging easier
• consistent environment between developers

solutions

1. put development environment in a container

   • https://github.com/coder/code-server
   • https://www.eclipse.org/che/

2. remote containers

   • https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server
   • https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod
   • https://github.com/nicbet/docker-phoenix

reference

• https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/put-your-dev-env-in-github/
• https://github.com/kudulab/dojo#Why-not-just-docker-run