Devcontainer

A collection of Development Container definitions for creating consistent, reproducible development environments. This repository provides pre-configured devcontainer images to streamline setting up development environments in tools like Visual Studio Code, GitHub Codespaces, or other container-based IDEs.

About

A development container is a running Docker container with a well-defined tool/runtime stack and its prerequisites. It allows you to use a container as a full-featured development environment which can be used to run an application, to separate tools, libraries, or runtimes needed for working with a codebase, and to aid in continuous integration and testing.

This repository contains a set of dev container images which are Docker images built with dev container features.

Contents

• src - Contains reusable dev container images.
• scripts - Contains utility scripts, including generate-docs.js for updating documentation links in this README.

Available Dev Containers

Below is a list of available Dev Container definitions in this repository:

Name	Description	Base Image	Documentation
python	Python 3.x environment with common tools (e.g., pip, pylint)	ghcr.io/jmcombs/devcontainer:python	Python Docs
node	Node.js environment with npm/yarn and VS Code extensions	ghcr.io/jmcombs/devcontainer:node	Node Docs
base-ubuntu	Base Ubuntu 22.04 image with essential tools	ghcr.io/jmcombs/devcontainer:base-ubuntu	Base Ubuntu Docs

Usage

To use these dev containers in Visual Studio Code or GitHub Codespaces:

1. Open your project in VS Code or Codespaces.
2. Select the dev container: Use the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P on macOS) and choose Dev Containers: Reopen in Container.
3. Choose a container definition: Select one of the available dev containers from this repository (e.g., python or node).
4. Start coding: Your environment will be set up with all the necessary tools and extensions.

For more detailed instructions, refer to the Dev Containers documentation.