cli VS nvim-dev-container

You still cannot stop, remove or update a Dev container from CLI and there at numerous issues with the rest of the implemented features.

[0]: https://github.com/devcontainers/cli?tab=readme-ov-file#cont...

Well, I got the hint from this GitHub issue. Also, it seems like at one time a devcontainer open command existed in the old dev container CLI (it does not exist anymore since the CLI wants to be editor-agnostic).

So you can use Dev Containers from the vscode user interface rather intuitively. All configurations can also be edited directly and there is even a CLI. However, this CLI is made editor agnostic, so there is no vscode integration.

During the last past few days I've been working on a new neovim plugin: nvim-devcontainer-cli which gives you the possibility to build, run and connect to your Docker devcontainer using devcontainer-cli, which is the CLI used by the VS Code Devcontainer plugin.

While doing a bit more research: https://github.com/devcontainers/cli and https://devcontainers.github.io/

If you want to support both use-cases (vim/Neovim & vscode), then vscode/MS broke out devcontainers feature from vscode into a separate project to support non-vscode users. Check out https://github.com/devcontainers/cli and https://devcontainers.github.io/

It's hard to ensure that a prebuilt image provides valid cache for the dev container (I actually submitted a PR to help with this, but I'm still seeing problems and haven't figured out why yet). When we have a cache miss, the build takes 10 minutes.

to add this this they recently defined "devcontainers" as a spec to help integrate it with other editors and also turn it into a CLI tool that is being heavily worked on https://containers.dev/ https://github.com/devcontainers/cli

the team have actually started developing devcontainers an an open specification for other IDEs to start integrating with along with a CLI tool they are developing to cutout the need for VS code all together. https://github.com/devcontainers/cli

Haven't tested it myself, but there's now a cli to decouple devcontainers from VSCode:

https://github.com/devcontainers/cli

As you can see from the customizations section, Dev Containers are IDE agnostic. For example, there is a project implementing Dev Container support into nvim. But since the Visual Studio Code (vscode) team at Microsoft invented Dev Containers, it is currently the IDE with the best Dev Container experience.

Is there any extension that fullty supports the dev.json spec? I tried this : https://github.com/esensar/nvim-dev-container But it looks like it doesn`t add any of the features I set on the dev.json. I also cant seem to make the :terminal command attach to the container - it does work on VsCode :z.

How do you achieve the devcontainer experience without any VS Code? I am aware of plugins like https://github.com/jamestthompson3/nvim-remote-containers and https://github.com/esensar/nvim-dev-container however I didn't figure them out and they don't seem very active.

esensar/nvim-dev-container

nvim-dev-container provides functionality related to devcontainer.json file, similar to VSCods's remote container development.