This repository contains a template for Node.js + Redis VSCode devcontainer. As a bonus, app container automatically runs redis-commander on startup, which also prevents it from shutting down, hence allowing it to serve as devcontainer.

If you don't want to run redis-commander on startup, modify docker-compose.yml - replace starting redis-commander with something like tail -f /dev/null. If you won't do that, the container will shut down immediatelly and won't work as devcontainer.

Clone this repository and open it in devcontainer using Remote-Containers: Open folder in Container... command in VSCode. It should do the rest automatically.

The app folder is monted in /home/node/app directory by default. You can change that in docker-compose.yml.

redis-commander is running on port 8081. Go to https://localhost:8081 to see the web UI.

You can access redis via redis:https://redis:6379 URL from inside the container. It's also forwarded outside of it, so you can use local tools to connect to it (you can access it via redis:https://localhost:6379). If that's not desired behaviour, remove ports section of redis from docker-compose.yml.