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Theodor Heiselberg
Theodor Heiselberg

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Run lunarvim in a devcontainer

Let's play with lunarvim

This is both fun and easy. Unfortunately the dockerfiles found in luarvim's own repos was not working for me. So here is a version which will run on apple silicon.

If you wan't the icons to be show all pretty in lvim then remember to have nerd-fonts installed on your host machine. The add this setting to your vs-code :

"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "FiraCode Nerd Font",

{ "name": "lunarvim-devcontainer", "dockerFile": "Dockerfile.lunarvim" } 
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# Use a stable version of Alpine as the base image FROM alpine:3.18 # Set up the working directory WORKDIR /tmp # Set environment variables ENV HOME_DIR="/home/lunaruser" ENV LV_BRANCH="release-1.4/neovim-0.9" ENV PATH="$PATH:$HOME_DIR/.local/bin" # Install dependencies RUN apk update && \ apk add --no-cache \ yarn \ git \ python3 \ cargo \ neovim \ ripgrep \ alpine-sdk \ bash \ curl # Add a non-root user and group RUN addgroup -S lunaruser && \ adduser -S lunaruser -G lunaruser --shell /bin/sh # Switch to the non-root user USER lunaruser # Run LunarVim installation as the non-root user RUN curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lunarvim/lunarvim/$LV_BRANCH/utils/installer/install.sh | \ bash -s -- --no-install-dependencies # Set default command to open LunarVim - when running directly in a docker container # CMD ["/home/lunaruser/.local/bin/lvim"] 
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>> lvim [enter]

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Bonus

You could just run the container interactively:

>> cd /your-path/.devcontainer/  >> docker build -t my-lunarvim-image -f Dockerfile.lunarvim .  >> docker run -it --rm -v .:/home/lunaruser/project -w /home/lunaruser/project my-lunarvim-image /bin/bash 
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