Getting started

This repository contains a Visual Studio Code .devcontainer prepared to include many dependencies required to do full stack software development for a range of popular stacks, including:

• Frontend development - NodeJS and NPM
• Backend development - JAVA and .NET
• Cloud development - CLIs for Azure and AWS

In order to use this pre-configured devcontainer, you'll need to

• Install Visual Studio Code
• Install Docker (specifically: Docker for Windows, when running on Windows, please make sure to use the appropriate licensing in this case)
• Install the Remote - Containers extension for Visual Studio Code (extension ID: ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers)
• Clone this repository using git or by downling it as a .zip file
• Open the root folder of this repository in Visual Studio Code
• Open the root folder of this repository inside the devcontainer by
  • Hitting F1
  • Select the Remote-Containers: Open folder in container... command
  • Select this repositories root folder

This will restart Visual Studio Code in a mode running inside a Docker container defined by the ./.devcontainer/Dockerfile, and you'll have all the tools listed above readily installed. Just the AWS and Azure CLIs still need to be configured using your own credentials.

⚠️ Please note: on the very first run, opening the dev container will pull and build Docker images, which will take some time and use up some bandwidth - please plan for this.

💡 Please consider this repository as a starting point - you can anytime extend the ./.devcontainer/Dockerfile and ./.devcontainer/devcontainer.json files to install additional dependencies. The easiest path to do so is by adding one of the already prepackaged features