- Clone project
- Build container
- Develop
If you're in a polyglot shop there are HUGE productivity gains in not needing to setup your environment manually, or worse, risk that vital information about it is distributed as tribal knowledge.
Plus, if your project has external dependencies like DBs, S3, etc... you can use docker-compose with VS Code as well.
Here's our current base go template, you only need Docker+VSCode on your system to get started: https://github.com/allaboutapps/go-starter
Bonus points:
* As all IDE operations solely run within the local Docker container, all developers can expect that their IDE will work the same without manual configuration steps.
* We can easily support local development in all three major OSes (MacOS, Windows, Linux) and even support developing directly in your Browser through GitHub Codespaces.
* Developing directly inside a Docker container guarantees that you use the very same toolset, which our CI will use to build these images. There are no more excuses why your code builds differently locally versus in our CI.
Edit: format/typos
I, personally, hope that JetBrains comes up with something similar which will allow devs to use the same workflow with the JetBrains IDEs.