NodeJS virtual environment in Fedora Toolbox

Fedora Toolbox is used to create isolated development environment with container technologies(podman).

Why Fedora Toolbox
1.It is tailor made and built-in fedora.
2.By utilizing a Fedora base image, it can install cross language and dependencies environment.
3.As Toolbox is mutable environment and docker environment is immutable; Docker is usually for software deployment and this is for software development

Hands-on Example

So let's start with creating nodeJS development environment inside Fedora.

toolbox create node
toolbox enter node
sudo dnf install nodejs

# Install Yarn
curl --silent --location https://dl.yarnpkg.com/rpm/yarn.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/yarn.repo
sudo dnf install yarn

Output for Fedora Toolbox

1. Create a fedora container, named node

Created Container: Node
# ... Other logs downloading and setting up container

1. Entering virtual environment

Manage Environemnts | Containers

1. List Containers

toolbox list

1. Remove Containers

toolbox rm node
# No Output for this Command

Reference

To understand the container technology behind Fedora toolbox, you can visit this essay