Great suggestions for tools, dev environment and cloud hosting

https://montasaurus.com/posts/how-i-build#structure

  • VS Code
  • OrbStack, Docker Desktop replacement
  • large number of Unix tools
  • Python (uv and useful packages)
  • React, Next.js and useful modules
  • …
  • Tailscale
  • Fly.io

Direnv to source .env files automatically

https://github.com/direnv/direnv

Devbox

  • based on Nix
  • simplify setting up dev environment
  • when ready, create a container with same dependencies

https://www.jetpack.io/devbox/docs/

Nix for dev tools

https://devenv.sh/

Lorri to manage nix-shells

https://github.com/nix-community/lorri

Dev environments in the cloud

https://blog.kardinal.dev/introducing-kardinal/

  • framework for creating extremely lightweight development environments within a shared Kubernetes cluster

Shortcomings of Kubernetes for dev environments

https://www.gitpod.io/blog/we-are-leaving-kubernetes