a_passable_dev

To be honest, I’d rather spend my limited free time watching amateur YouTube than watching a show on Netflix. No value judgement on either from my part, just my preference. As the parent of a special needs toddler with a busy work life, my personal free time is extremely limited, but when I do have it, it’s YouTube for me.

I haven been working on my own version of docker-compose that can also work with podman. But the draw for me here isn’t that i wanted to replace docker-compose, or even use podman specifically, but rather that I wanted to have a one stop shop for generating conteinerized projects using my most used languages and frameworks without having to have any tool chains installed locally, and as a bonus point have a wrapper to be able to issue commands inside those containers without having to use the full docker-compose incantations or having to shell into the running containers.

It’s not a full replacement, and I wouldn’t use this in production. It is more meant to help lower the friction for starting new learning projects.

Right now I can do things like `wizard new rails -d postgresql MY_PROJECT` or `wizard rust test` or `wizard start`

It is mostly cli for now but I’ve started working on a nice TUI for it as well.

No good reason for this other than not wanting to depend on environment managers, tool chain managers, or a combination of different tools.

I don’t use docker-compose for almost anything now, but projects generated with my tool are fully docker-compose compatible as I also create a docker-compose file when creating a new project with my tool. It’s been a really fun learning exercise and I learned a LOT about docker and the docker api in the process

Out of curiosity, what would be an acceptable way for the developers to provide a quick way for users to get up and running?

A get started guide with all the required commands easily copy-pastable? (A popular option these days) Something else?

I don’t mean to be critical, I’m simply curious.

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