mrzzy / devcrate

Portable, docker based development enviroment

devcrate

Dotfiles & containers

Intro

The two aims in this project:

• dotfiles - version controlling and automating installing my configuration files
• devcrate - packaging my development tools into a docker containers for portablity

Devcrate

Package move dev tools, config into Docker container to make them more portable:

• base image:
  • devcrate neovim tmux zsh docker entr git ssh htop jq
• extended with additinal with additional tools for cloud computing:
  • devcrate-cloud - cloud computing support: kubectl, gcloud, awscli, helm, terraform, iputils dnsutils

Setup

Dotfiles

Prerequisites: make

1. Clone this repository
2. Install the command line dotfiles to your home directory:

make -C dotfiles/base

devcrate Containers

Prerequisites: docker & macos/Linux

1. Running devcrate containers:

docker run -it \
    -u $UID:$GID \
    --network=host \
    -v /thing/to/work/on:/home/work \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    mrzzy/devcrate

devcrate's Issues

Upgrade Node.js in Devcrate container to latest LTS 14.15.4

A noticeably improved neovim editor performance and responsiveness can be observed upon upgrading.

Stablize Devcrate by adding Release Branch and Freezing Plugins

Experimental changes like adding new neovim plugins can break things.

Stablize Devcrate by:

• Adding a stable release branch that is less prone to breakage.
• Freezing (neovim) plugins by git commit Hash/version tag

Cloud: AWS CLI requires groff

aws cli requires groff but its not installed

Upgrade from manually configured ccls to coc-clangd extension

Currently C/C++/Objective-C completion is provided via ccls and manual language server configuration in coc-settings.json:

devcrate/dotfiles/base/nvim/coc-settings.json

Lines 40 to 50 in 5d322fa

	// c/c++/obj-c
	"ccls": {
	"command": "ccls",
	"filetypes": ["c", "cpp", "cuda", "objc", "objcpp"],
	"rootPatterns": [".ccls", "compile_commands.json", ".vim/", ".git/", ".hg/"],
	"initializationOptions": {
	"cache": {
	"directory": ".ccls-cache"
	}
	}
	},

Switch to coc-clangd for C/C++/Objective-C completion in favor of using a dedicated coc-extension instead of using manual language server configuration.

Modularize neovim plugins

Currently the neovim in a devcrate image includes all kinds of language support that may or make not be required
Modularize language support to individual images.

JVM development support.

Support for developing with JVM:

• java 8/java 11/scala/kotlin/lombok
• maven/gradle/sbt

nvim: Nvim sourcing nvim plugin vim configs despite not sourcing plugin.vim in init.vim

Problem

Despite commenting the sourcing of plugin.vim in init.vim:

"...
" Load configuration files
source ~/.config/nvim/editor.vim
source ~/.config/nvim/keybind.vim
" commented out!
" source ~/.config/nvim/plugin.vim
" ...

nvim still flags errrors related to plugins on run without plugins installed.

Investigation

nvim seems to source alll files in ~/.config/nvim/ not just init.vim.
As such, it sources the plugin.vim file(s) even thought its commented out in init.vim

Proposal

• Copy init.vim, editor.vim. and keybind.vim into the ~/.config/nvim/ folder.
• Copy the plugin related config into ~/.config/nvim_plug/ folder
• Update init.vim to source moved plugin configs, remove sources for editor.vim, keybind.vim

Bundle rust with devcrate as tmux-thumbs tmux plugin requires rustc

Problem

tmux-thumbs tmux plugin requires rustc

Prerequisites

tmux-thumbs is written in Rust. You will need rustc version 1.35.0 or higher. The recommended way to install Rust is from the official download page.

Proposal

Bundle rust with devcrate docker image in order to provide the rustc required by tmux-thumbs