Devcontainer broilerplate

• This repository has broilerplate code to setup an isolated development enviroment using Devcontainer.

Pre-requisite:

• You should have Docker or Podman installed on your system.

Advantages of devcontainer

• Devcontainer helps the whole team to work in a consistent coding environment.
• Using Devcontainer provides several advantages like,
  • Consistent and reproducable development enviroment
  • Simplified setup
  • Isolated environment
• To learn more about Devcontainers, please refer to: Devcontainers

Using the repo

• After cloning this repo, open the folder in Visual Studio code.
• Go to command palette (Cmd+shift+p in Macbook), search for reopen in container and select that option.
• This will create a devcontainer based on the Dockerfile and devcontainer.json in the .devcontainer folder.
• Once the devcontainer is created, you can add your own files as per the project requirements.
• Poetry is used as package manager. To add any new package use the command

poetry add <package-name>

• To remove any package, use the command:

poetry remove <package-name>