Overview

Set up docker-compose so that devs can easily run the dev environment without OS-specific issues. This includes the client, the server, and the database.

The goal is a more or less turn-key dev environment setup rather than leaving some setup steps in the documentation. Any extra steps should be scripted as much as possible.

Action Items

• Set up docker-compose for the dev environment
  • database from Set up docker-compose for local db #765
  • server
  • client
• resolve .env file problem switching between localhost and docker
• auto-create the database and auto-apply migrations
• check that tests still run correctly
• Release dependency on Dev: Fix sass @import deprecation warnings by changing to @use #2359 and Set up docker-compose for local db #765 and move them to the New Issue Approval column

Resources/Instructions

• See Contributing page for how to set up the dev environment on the host machine
• In order to not conflict with existing dev environment instructions, we should leave the .env file in the /server directory and reference it from the docker-compose.yml in the root directory.