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Devcontainers NodeJS

Getting started:

Download a zip of this repo (clone only for contributions).

Rename the directory with something suitable for your project (will be used by docker as a namespace!)

Add it as a folder in your project

Change name in .devcontainer/devcontainer.json for your project. (This will keep your projects storage isolated between them)

Uncomment/add needed services in docker-compose.yml.

Important for Windows 10 users:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config#configure-global-options-with-wslconfig

Make sure you will set a memory limit, as the 80% default limit will allow WSL2 to do aggresive caching in ram and will simply make your system slow, sometimes even freezing minutes. This is not a bug of Docker, neither of Linux. It's purely a missed optimization of Microsoft in WSL2, forgetting that Linux, like Windows as well, is very aggressive on caching anything possible.

Example: I use 8GB memory limit and 0 swap to make docker behave identical like on a virtual server with 8gb of ram and 2 cpus. Works fine on a 16GB laptop, no slowness while running devcontainers with lots of services, including Elastic Search. On a 8GB Windows Host, I would set 4GB memory limit, and tweak in docker-compose.yaml to enforce lower memory limits per services, but do really investigate if those services can run with extrem low memory constrains.

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