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Discussion on: Containerize your Dev environment! Forget about painful project setup. (Beginner friendly)

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Bartek Jaskulski

Hi Adnan!
It's really great setup and I know your pain - containerization helps a lot, especially when I want to create setup for webdev and easily share it with someone else.

Please, explain to me, how are you using the apps, you have installed in container (browser, IDE, etc.). By the time I thought that you can only run interactive shell or connect with shared port, but I wasn't aware, that you can run a GUI app, too.

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Adnan Alam • Edited

Hey great question! this is done by sharing your X11 server that handles display in unix systems. However, for windows, I'm having difficulties sharing a X11 server, as windows does not use similar systems. I will update the article once I have that working. Thanks!