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Advanced Dev Container Configuration for TypeScript
How to improve the developer experience for better quality and productivity
11 min readSep 11, 2022
Introduction
In previous posts here and here, I described how to create a dev container for TypeScript development with VS Code. In this article I am goint to revisit the topic and share the insights I have gained since the publications of those two posts.
The new insights are not invented by me. I don’t take credit for them. They are the result of my learning with and from other people, most of them people who I work with daily. All credit should go to those amazing people. They provide the fertile collaboration necessarily for faster and more profound learning.
In this article I will cover the following topics:
- Using specific versions to reduce variability
- Directory structure in a dev container for TypeScript
- Improve container port mapping
- Improve VS Code settings for working with containers
- Improve git client behavior when using trunk-based development
- A couple of VS Code settings for working with TypeScript
- Multi-stage Dockerfile for creating container images for…
