Take your development environment anywhere and on any machine with Dev Containers.

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  • templates

    Repository for Dev Container Templates that are managed by Dev Container spec maintainers. See https://github.com/devcontainers/template-starter to create your own! (by devcontainers)

  • there are already built docker images for common development environment. You can either use one of them, or build one from Docker file. Using a pre-built dev container doesn't mean you are only limited to that image, because you can still add other tools, which they are called features to that image. For a list of the pre-built templates check here, and for the other features that you can add check this. You don't need a Docker file, unless you want to build your dev environment step by step.

  • features

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

  • there are already built docker images for common development environment. You can either use one of them, or build one from Docker file. Using a pre-built dev container doesn't mean you are only limited to that image, because you can still add other tools, which they are called features to that image. For a list of the pre-built templates check here, and for the other features that you can add check this. You don't need a Docker file, unless you want to build your dev environment step by step.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • spec

    Development Containers: Use a container as a full-featured development environment. (by devcontainers)

  • Dev containers provides a fantastic way to onboard a new developer up and running in matter of just clone the git repository.

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