Look into using docker (or some other solution) to iron out environment issues

[DSchau]

We (still) almost every time run into issues with people's environments not being configured correctly.

If we could create a docker image that contains required versions for things, that would be pretty neat. We could certainly build the server side stuff so that each user doesn't have to run that in a separate command

[DSchau]

Whoops. Still worth doing, I just don't really know all that much about this stuff. I can figure this out unless anyone has any interest in creating an official Docker image?

I feel like we sorta solve our issue here, but then it's also "OK now install Docker to iron out your environment"

"What's Docker?" "How do I do it?" etc. etc.

I feel like being able to use something like CodeSandbox solves this problem just as cleanly and probably a bit more simply.

[Bolerr]

Any thought of reaching out to Curt Larson of one of our other dev ops guys on this one?

[hejkal]

@DSchau Yeah, I like the CodeSandbox approach. If folks aren't familiar with docker (which many won't be, I've used it some but not in a couple years), that seems like it doesn't reduce the complexity / ways to go wrong thaaat much.

[DSchau]

@Bolerr yeah, that seems like a good idea. I'll do that this afternoon just to gauge quality of the idea 🙃