devcontainers

NOTE at the time of writing, several of the features/components mentioned in this post are in preview, but will hopefully hit GA soon. As with all preview bits there can be rough edges so follow these steps at your own discretion! UPDATE (2020-04-08): With the 1.44 release of Visual Studio Code (and the corresponding Remote Containers release), the Insiders release is no longer needed as the . I have updated the post to reflect this (update made in vscode devcontainer on stable release 😁). [Read More]

Visual Studio Code has support for Remote Development which is a really cool feature. You can connect to another machine via SSH and work with code there (the language services etc run remotely which is the really cool part!), connect to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, or run your development environment in containers (aka devcontainers). The last of these is the topic for this post. My team has been using devcontainers quite heavily for the last few months and found a lot of benefits with them. [Read More]