I was recently playing around with a bit of a self assembled version of this using VSCode dev containers and exploring what a “GitHub Codespaces first” workflow

I was recently playing around with a bit of a self assembled version of this using VSCode dev containers and exploring what a “GitHub Codespaces first” workflow could look like. I was honestly pretty happy with where I landed on it even in the context of a fairly complicated setup running a Flutter web app, a backend and an envoy sidecar proxy. I was also able to set up a consistent IDE experience by specifying the various plugins I wanted to use along with other tooling I needed like gcloud SDK etc… But just last week I did a remote pairing session with someone on a full stack web application entirely within a remote codespaces environment with zero other tooling (even the pairing was taken care of thanks to VSCode live share plugins). I thought that was a pretty cool experience overall. The thing I love most though is that I’m not specifically tied to a remote development environment I can get the exact same experience by just running the devcontainer locally on my machine.