![]() or in a fresh shared instance in the cloud. On a consultant’s laptop that plays host to a dozen different, unrelated codebases at at time.On the workstation of a designer who needs to be able to try out visual changes locally across several in-house codebases… without being familiar with the backend tech stacks. ![]() On a new-hire’s laptop on their first day.This article is about the technology and practices that enables developers to spin up a whole project-customized development environment from zero, in a few seconds or minutes. ![]() Now, CodeSpaces are cool, but this article isn’t actually about them, or even about cloud-based development more generally. Total time lost to getting my development environment set up on on a new (cloud) machine: maybe five minutes. I proceeded to make progress on my project. a whole virtual machine, customized for my project. So I brought up the project on GitHub, opened it in GitHub Codespaces, and started up right where I'd left off, with my full development environment running in the cloud. But all I had was a WiFi connection and the tiny Chromebook I'd thrown in my bag. And I had some coding work I was itching to make some progress on. ![]() It's one of those fancy car washes where you hand your car over to the attendants and then go and wait while they clean it inside and out. So, the other day I took my car to the car wash. Developing from a Chromebook at the car wash ![]()
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