spec VS Visual Studio Code

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spec

Posts with mentions or reviews of spec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-23.
  • Show HN: Lapdev, a new open-source remote dev environment management software
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2024
    Hi, Lapdev dev here. Let me try to answer your question.

    It's installed on a remote server so it provides remote environments. If you use VSCode remote, then you can "open" it through VSCode remote ssh.

    The environment that Lapdev provides essentially is a container (other format is on the roadmap) with things pre-installed as defined in Devcontainer(https://containers.dev/) format.

  • Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2024
    Happy to take this one, as I am one of the cofounder of Daytona.

    Daytona solves all the automation and provisioning of the dev environment, actually wrote an article here laying out exactly what we do: https://www.daytona.io/dotfiles/diy-guide-to-transform-any-m...

    Daytona currently supports only the dev container (https://containers.dev/) "dev env infrastructure as code" standard, but are looking to support others such as devfile, nix and flox.

    Hope this helps

  • A Journey to Find an Ultimate Development Environment
    13 projects | dev.to | 2 Feb 2024
    The full usage of the container means that you'll do the development inside the container. All the tools for development need to be installed inside the container. One of the technologies that leverage this approach is Devcontainers.
  • How CDEs work - no bs blog post
    1 project | dev.to | 9 Jan 2024
    Two standards for CDE configuration exist: devfile.yml and devcontainer.json. Both assume that the CDE is a single container and allow specification of which tools should be deployed to this container, as well as a reference to scripts that should run after the container has been created.
  • Use Docker to create a local development Python environment
    2 projects | /r/docker | 8 Dec 2023
  • Launching dev containers from code - is impossible?
    4 projects | dev.to | 15 Nov 2023
    ... is how I introduced the concept of dev containers in my last article.
  • Dev Containers: Open, Develop, Repeat...
    9 projects | dev.to | 30 Oct 2023
    How it works? Dev Containers is a specification based on Docker. This specification describes a metadata file (devcontainer.json), which defines how the project (Docker container, IDE settings, plugins, etc) is set up.
  • Try MongoDB and Laravel in 1-click via GitHub Codespaces
    2 projects | dev.to | 24 Oct 2023
    Codespaces is built to run Dev Containers, an open standard for Development Containers. The Dev Container will reference a Docker build file, which describes the software and services our app is running on. It also defines things related to our development environment, including IDE plugins, network ports, and more.
  • Is there some catch to cause DNS issues on Linux, that is not common with Windows or Mac?
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 12 Oct 2023
    I was using Devcontainer with VS Code. In a part of the container build process, DNS lookup seemed to be failing in Debian 12. BTW, the container image was based on Debian 11. I probably tried it about 10 times in total, so I'm pretty sure it persisted, not an one time error. I noticed the build process was failing because the process failed to find some domains, with an error message like could not resolve host github.com. Some domains I noticed was github.com and ghcr.io, so it failed sometimes for one domain, and sometimes for the other.
  • Dev Container for React Native with Expo
    5 projects | dev.to | 22 Sep 2023
    // For format details, see https://aka.ms/devcontainer.json. For config options, see the // README at: https://github.com/devcontainers/templates/tree/main/src/typescript-node { "name": "Node.js & TypeScript", // Or use a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file. More info: https://containers.dev/guide/dockerfile "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/typescript-node:1-20-bullseye", // Features to add to the dev container. More info: https://containers.dev/features. // "features": {}, // Use 'forwardPorts' to make a list of ports inside the container available locally. "forwardPorts": [8081], "initializeCommand": "bash .devcontainer/initializeCommand.sh", // Use 'postCreateCommand' to run commands after the container is created. "postCreateCommand": "bash .devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh", // Configure tool-specific properties. // "customizations": {}, // Uncomment to connect as root instead. More info: https://aka.ms/dev-containers-non-root. // "remoteUser": "root", // "containerEnv": { // }, // "remoteEnv": { // "DEV_USER_HOST": "${localEnv:USERNAME}" // }, "runArgs": ["-p=8081:8081", "--env-file", ".devcontainer/.env"] }

Visual Studio Code

Posts with mentions or reviews of Visual Studio Code. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-01.
  • Create a simple Server using Express.js.
    1 project | dev.to | 4 May 2024
    Download any code editor e.g. VS code. Visual Studio code which is a code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running, and version control. Go to https://code.visualstudio.com
  • How to Add Firebase Authentication To Your NodeJS App
    7 projects | dev.to | 1 May 2024
    A code editor (VS Code is my go-to IDE), but feel free to use any code editor you're comfortable with.
  • Create a Chat App With Node.js
    8 projects | dev.to | 30 Apr 2024
    First, grab your favorite command-line tool, Terminal or Warp, and a code editor, preferably VS Code and let’s begin.
  • Asynchronous Programming in C#
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2024
    C# is very good as a language, have developed in it for 5+ years. The problem is the gap between what MSFT promises to management and actually delivers to developers. You really really need to fully read the fine print, think of the omissions in documentation and implement a proof-of-concept that almost implements the full solution to find out the hidden gotchas.

    For example, even probably their best product VS Code only got reasonable multiple screens support last year: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/10121#issuecommen...

    And then, on the other end of the spectrum, you have Teams.

  • 8 Essential VS Code Extensions [2024]
    1 project | dev.to | 28 Apr 2024
    Hey fellow amazing developers, we got you Essential VS Code Extensions for 2024 (these are especially important for web developers) recommended by our developers at evotik, we wont talk about ESlint nor Prettier which all of you already know.
  • scrape-yahoo-finance
    3 projects | dev.to | 25 Apr 2024
    Visual Studio Code (VS Code): Developed by Microsoft, VS Code is a lightweight yet powerful IDE with extensive support for Python development through extensions. It offers features like IntelliSense, debugging, and built-in Git integration.
  • XDebug with WP-Setup
    3 projects | dev.to | 24 Apr 2024
    In VSCode for example this can be easily done by adding the following .vscode/launch.json file:
  • I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own (it wasn't easy)
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2024
    I had a near-identical experience. I looked into switching in 2019 and ran into this 2016 bug which was a showstopper for me. Fixed it myself, grand total 4 line diff. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/10643
  • Employee Management System using Python.
    2 projects | dev.to | 21 Apr 2024
    When working in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), always create a new Python file for your project.
  • A deep dive into progressive web apps (PWA)
    1 project | dev.to | 20 Apr 2024
    Code Editor: Choose a code editor like Visual Studio Code that offers good support for web technologies and extensions for PWA development.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing spec and Visual Studio Code you can also consider the following projects:

features - A collection of Dev Container Features managed by Dev Container spec maintainers. See https://github.com/devcontainers/feature-starter to publish your own

thonny - Python IDE for beginners

features - A collection of development container 'features' for machine learning and data science

reactide - Reactide is the first dedicated IDE for React web application development.

conda-devcontainer-demo - Mini Conda + Mamba dev container setup to make working with environments easy.

Spyder - Official repository for Spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment

tweek - Tweek - an open source feature manager

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

lapdev - Self-Hosted Remote Dev Environment

KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP

microservice-rust-mysql - A template project for building a database-driven microservice in Rust and run it in the WasmEdge sandbox.

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing