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Has IO through the hypervisor improved on macOS? Last I tried, the `./node_modules` directory absolutely destroyed the ability for me to use Docker as a development environment on my macOS workstations for Rails development, even with the special caching flags enabled.

A lot has change since then, like I stay away from node and `./node_modules` as much as possible via importmaps, but even then the FS performance wasn't enough for my needs.

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I do dev work on mostly node/web projects that use npm. Pretty much everything I do involves docker. I typically write a docker file that copies package.json/package-lock.json into the image, then run npm install. That way the rebuild cycle is fast if the package.json file doesn't change and the node_modules are inside the container. Then I bind-mount all the src files that I'm working on so that live reload will work.

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