I generally put a Dockerfile.dev that creates a user with the same GID and UID as my own (injected through environment variables): RUN adduser -u $UID...

I generally put a Dockerfile.dev that creates a user with the same GID and UID as my own (injected through environment variables): RUN adduser -u $UID... USER node Then in the docker-compose you bind mount your current directory. volumes: - ./:/app/