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I've been using devcontainers in Node development in VSC and enjoy the idea that I can commit a shared configuration to ensure everyone on the team has the same runtime/buildtime. I've been looking for a similar way to configure IntelliJ, but am having some difficulties determining if this is even possible.
I am running IntelliJ 2020.2 and have the Node Remote Interpreter plugin installed.
In my devcontainer, I map a Docker volume node_modules to my workspace such that all my different containers can share the same volume, and not need to re-download the set of npm modules everytime.
I have setup & created an appropriate Run/Debug Docker configuration, and when I launch it, the container is built & configured properly. However, in IntelliJ, understandably, the node_modules folder still remains blank (as that folder is only mounted in the remote container).
Similarly, I have setup a remote Node run configuration pointing to my docker image, but similarly, IntelliJ does not see any libraries that are supposed to be in the node_modules folder.
Is there any way to work with this kind of configuration in IntelliJ such that the IDE understands the mappings I create in my Docker container?
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IntelliJ IDEA provides Docker support using the Docker plugin. The plugin is bundled and enabled by defaultin IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition. For IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, you need to install the Docker plugin as described in Install plugins.
Run the Java application in a Docker container In the Project tool window, right-click the project name, point to New and click File. In the New File dialog, type Dockerfile and press Enter . This Dockerfile builds an image based on the openjdk:17 image from Docker Hub.
Visual Studio provides a consistent way to develop Docker containers and validate your application locally. You can run and debug your apps in Linux or Windows containers running on your local Windows desktop with Docker installed, and you don't have to restart the container each time you make a code change.
Last modified: 13 May 2021 Docker enables developers to deploy applications inside containers for testing code in an environment identical to production. IntelliJ IDEA provides Docker support using the Docker plugin. The plugin is bundled and enabled by default in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition.
This allows us to run Visual Studio Code in a container. In the root directory of your project, you need to create a folder called .devcontainer. This is where we will store the settings for our environment. Then create two files in this folder, devcontainer.json and a Dockerfile.
A devcontainer.json file in your project tells VS Code how to access (or create) a development container with a well-defined tool and runtime stack. This container can be used to run an application or to sandbox tools, libraries, or runtimes needed for working with a codebase.
While the Docker extension can run both remotely and locally, if it is already installed locally, you will be unable to install in a container without first uninstalling it locally. We will address this problem in a future VS Code release. Many extensions will work inside dev containers without modification.
no, there is no such feature in IDEA. Please vote for IDEA-202267 to be notified on any progress with this feature request
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JetBrains now supports GitPod as a first class citizen implementation for the Development Containers concept. Both IntelliJ Idea and the next-gen IDE Fleet are supported. Also JetBrains Space would be an option, if you have licences for it in your company. There's a landing page that present all the options:
In contrast to the VSCode style implementation of the concept where you configure your Dev Containers using a devcontainer.json with GitPod you use a .gitpod.yml. But GitPod is already working actively on supporting the devcontainer.json format, which was Open Sourced by Microsoft here.
More details and in-depth review of the Development Containers concept can be found in this post.
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