On: Netlify Dev

[larrywright]

This looks interesting, but am I the only one turned off by having to ‘npm install’ to try it out?

[sjbrown → larrywright]

Yeah, I wish it were just a docker image up on the hub

[hombre_fatal → sjbrown]

That "just" is just your favorite alternative to "npm install". There's nothing "just" about it. Like preferring it was a pip or apt install.

[larrywright → hombre_fatal]

Sure there is. When I’m done looking at it, I delete the Docker image and it’s gone from my system. That’s more effort with npm.

Also, the docker solution works for everything. So whether it’s a node app, or python, or Go, or Ruby... the process is the same.

[tln → larrywright]

Getting a docker image to performantly access a local folder across platforms is a huge challenge.

I love docker but it's just not good enough at handling watched folders.

[sergiodxa → sjbrown]

You could create a Docker image that runs `npm install` and upload it to the hub.

[otab111 → larrywright]

Possibly. The announcement is all about the local version, so there's no way to try that out without installing it locally. However, it's the local version of a product that already exists entirely online with no need to `npm install` anything.