I don't use Docker locally except for building/testing production containers. I also found them not helpful for development.

That said, I recently discovered that VS Code has a feature called "Dev Containers"[0] that ostensibly makes it easy to develop inside the same Docker container you'll be deploying. I haven't had a chance to check it out, but it seems very cool.

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers