Devcontainers or Codespace with optimizations for PHP and Nodejs development.
Laravel, Symfony, CakePHP, Codeigniter, AdonisJS, NestJS, SailsJS, WordPress, Drupal, Magento, Prestashop, Opencart compatible and possible any NodeJS and PHP project.
Download a zip of this repo (clone only for contributions).
Rename the directory with something suitable for your project (will be used by docker as a namespace!)
Change name in .devcontainer/devcontainer.json for your project.
(This will keep your projects storage isolated between them)
Remove the .github directory. It contains automated build recipes for github, and will simply run
them if you use github.
Uncomment/add needed services in docker-compose.yml.
Tweak the cpu and memory limits to your needs. The defaults are sensible enough for Laravel, Drupal, Magento, Prestashop
on medium to large applications. I've provided them, as I sometimes had problems when using multiple databases and an
elasticsearch instance at same time on 16GB of ram.
Continue with the Wiki for advanced documentation.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config#configure-global-options-with-wslconfig
Make sure you will set a memory limit, as the 80% default limit will allow WSL2 to do aggresive caching in ram and will simply make your system slow, sometimes even freezing minutes. This is not a bug of Docker, neither of Linux. It's purely a missed optimization of Microsoft in WSL2, forgetting that Linux, like Windows as well, is very aggressive on caching anything possible.
Example: I use 8GB memory limit and 0 swap to make docker behave identical like on a virtual server with 8gb of ram
and 2 cpus. Works fine on a 16GB laptop, no slowness while running devcontainers with lots of services, including
Elastic Search. On a 8GB Windows Host, I would set 4GB memory limit, and tweak in docker-compose.yaml to enforce
lower memory limits per services, but do really investigate if those services can run with extrem low memory constrains.