Dockerfile

# ================================================
# Minimal VSCode (code-server) Setup for MERN Stack Development
# ================================================
FROM ubuntu:22.04

# Non-interactive apt
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

# Create a non-root user
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y sudo \
    && useradd -m -s /bin/bash coder \
    && echo "coder ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" >> /etc/sudoers

USER root
WORKDIR /home/coder

# -------------------------------
# Basic Development Tools
# -------------------------------
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    curl wget git unzip zip build-essential gnupg ca-certificates \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# -------------------------------
# Install Node.js (v22 LTS) + npm + yarn + pnpm
# -------------------------------
RUN curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | bash - \
    && apt-get install -y nodejs \
    && npm install -g yarn pnpm

# -------------------------------
# Install code-server (VS Code in browser)
# -------------------------------
RUN curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh

# -------------------------------
# Setup workspace directories
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RUN mkdir -p /home/coder/workspace /home/coder/.config/code-server /home/coder/.local/share/code-server \
    && chown -R coder:coder /home/coder

# -------------------------------
# Configure code-server authentication
# -------------------------------
USER coder
WORKDIR /home/coder/workspace

# Default password (can be overridden by Hugging Face secret or -e PASSWORD)
ENV PASSWORD=mernpassword

# Write the config file so code-server knows to use password auth
RUN echo "bind-addr: 0.0.0.0:7860\nauth: password\npassword: ${PASSWORD}\ncert: false" > /home/coder/.config/code-server/config.yaml

# -------------------------------
# Expose port and start code-server
# -------------------------------
EXPOSE 7860
CMD ["bash", "-c", "PASSWORD=${PASSWORD} code-server --config /home/coder/.config/code-server/config.yaml --user-data-dir /home/coder/.local/share/code-server"]