f0i / devcontainer-dfx

A development container for programming motoko for the dfinity internet computer.

Motoko/Rust Development Container

This project contains the Dockerfile for the VS Code development container.

Install

To use this you have to create a directory .devcontainer in your project and add the following two files:

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json:

{
 "name": "dfx",
 "build": {
  "dockerfile": "Dockerfile"
 },
 "mounts": [
  "source=${localWorkspaceFolder}/.config/dfx,target=/home/node/.config/dfx,type=bind"
 ],
 "settings": {
  "terminal.integrated.shell.linux": "/bin/bash"
 },
 "extensions": [
  "dbaeumer.vscode-eslint",
  "dfinity-foundation.vscode-motoko"
 ],
 // Use 'forwardPorts' to make a list of ports inside the container available locally.
 // "forwardPorts": [],
 // Use 'postCreateCommand' to run commands after the container is created.
 // "postCreateCommand": "yarn install",
 "remoteUser": "node"
}

.devcontainer/Dockerfile:

FROM f0ide/devcontainer-dfinity

# [Optional] Uncomment this section to install additional OS packages.
# RUN apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends <your-package-list-here>

# [Optional] run this to upgrade to the latest version of dfx
# RUN yes | dfx upgrade

# [Optional] Uncomment if you want to install an additional version of node using nvm
# ARG EXTRA_NODE_VERSION=10
# RUN su node -c "source /usr/local/share/nvm/nvm.sh && nvm install ${EXTRA_NODE_VERSION}"

# [Optional] Uncomment if you want to install more global node modules
# RUN su node -c "npm install -g <your-package-list-here>"

# [Optional] Uncomment if you want to use Rust
# RUN curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -t wasm32-unknown-unknown -y

Usage

Install the "Remote - Containers" extension.

Make sure Docker is installed, then run the command > Remote-Containers: Reopen in container.

This will download the docker image and setup the development container.

After that you can open a terminal and start developing in Motoko.

Development

The ./tests/ directory contains some script to test the build process. You can run all test using make inside the devcontainer.

cd tests
make test-all

devcontainer-dfx's Issues

Crypto state directory does not exist

Permission denied

When I execute dfx build in the container

No such file or directory

exit status: 243