Danielv123 / Phoenix-Devcontainer

Phoenix DevContainer

Contains .devcontainer folder for running a Elixir + Postgres development environment in Docker.

For use with

• Visual Studio Code
• Visual Studio Code Remote - Containers extension
• Docker
• Elixir
• Phoenix Framework

See microsoft/vscode-dev-containers for examples of other devcontainer setups.

Project setup

To create a new project, start by launching the devcontainer in codespaces or locally.

Run mix phx.new homepage

Press enter to confirm installing dependencies

cd homepage

change database hostname from localhost to db in test.exs and dev.exs

Finally, launch the server. By default it launches on port 4000 - use the vscode prompt to open a browser on the correct url.

mix phx.server

To watch and rebuild on changes, use

iex -S mix phx.server