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Re:Ask HN: What is the ideal developer experience in 2020? by jmuguy on Monday June 08, 2020 @10:40AM (#23456862)
For the first point how would you handle software that needs a database of some sort? Or are you saying the project ought to include an install script that handles dependencies?
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Re:Ask HN: What is the ideal developer experience in 2020? by keawade on Monday June 08, 2020 @10:52AM (#23456981)
Not OP, but I've used containers to run temporary local databases for development.

If you're also packaging your application as a container you can use container orchestration tools like `docker-compose` to compile your app and up a local dev environment with all your external dependencies with a single command (eg `docker-compose up`).

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Re:Ask HN: What is the ideal developer experience in 2020? by mustardo on Monday June 08, 2020 @10:53AM (#23456992)
Ive typically done this with Vagrant (virtual machines) + ansible but docker seems to be the new hotness. However a vm is what i run in prod so keeping docker out is one less tool
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