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Discussion on: Developing from Containers

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Vignesh D

A suggestion here is, instead of installing all the required tools, we can directly choose the base platform we are developing for. For example, here we can use Official Node image as base image and install additional tools. over it. Similarly for python or php.

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Jonathan Boudreau • Edited

I prefer to use Ubuntu as a base since I'm the most familiar with it. Most of the official images are based on Debian stretch. Also, for NodeJs I really can't live without NVM.

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Jesse M. Holmes

Also, for NodeJs I really can't live without NVM.

Is that because you’re locked into different versions, or does it do something else?

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Jonathan Boudreau

Yea depending on project I have to use specific versions.