Creating a Dev Container for TypeScript and VS Code — Part 1

Full-time nodejs dev container for less installation effort and more consistency.

Manfred Lange
16 min readJan 30, 2022
The Dev Container in Action

In this article:

  • Minimizing pre-requisites
  • Detailed explanation of dev container related files
  • Creating a Dev Container for TypeScript
  • Controlling the content of the dev container
  • Controlling the version of nodejs and npm
  • Selecting VS Code Extensions
  • Bonus: Resolving Some Common Issues in Corporate Environments

This is part 1 of a two-part article. Part 2 can be found here.

Introduction

Containerization as a concept for deploying SaaS (Software as a Service) products has now been established for quite some time. AWS, Azure, Google, Portainer and others offer a range of options for deploying and managing container-based systems.

In this article I will demonstrate how to create a dev container for TypeScript from scratch. You will need to have a basic understand of Docker. You need to understand the difference between a container image (short “image”) and a container instance (aka “container”) and how a container is…

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Manfred Lange
Manfred Lange

Written by Manfred Lange

CTO at MacroActive https://www.macroactive.com. I write about improving flow of value in software engineering. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/manfredlange

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