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Spordle Play uses a devcontainer which runs in VS Code and Docker. This helps keep development environments in sync and reproducible, and avoids clashing with anything else you’re working on if you’re working on other projects.
The devcontainer is configured with docker-compose to automatically sets up an environment with containers for nodejs, Postgres, RabbitMQ, and Minio with the correct versions. Compose creates an internal network that allows containers to communicate with each other using their container names, which is useful to know for your app container.
If you have any of these services already installed, the container networking is configured to not won’t conflict with existing ports and VS Code will automatically expose services to the next available port, while the standard ports are used within the devcontainer environment.
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