So, I imagine that my questions are can/should I use Docker for this, and what advantages would it have? With Docker, I don't know where to start, although I am sure that YouTube would be informative. If it were VirtualBox, I would just install Ubuntu and apt get install a few apps. What little I know of Docker leads me to believe that it would be smaller, but I think that it tends more to single app.

We will also need an Apache server, and probably Libre Office for documentation. I am not asking for help on that decision, just trying to point out what might be in our VM. Although, might turn out to be two VS Code installations, one with front-end and one with back-end extensions. I would strongly prefer to use a single IDE (VS Code) and hope to sway him. I hope that we can use only VS Code as IDE, although there will be both PHP sever-side and Flutter/Dart client-side and my friend is conversant with Android Studio and would prefer to use that for client-side. I am very conversant with VirtualBox, but someone has told me 'oh, you should use Docker' and we can't seem to communicate enough to make me understand why.īasically, I want to share a software development environment with a friend, so that we can be certain that we have identical IDEs, packages, plugins/extensions, etc the only difference will be the code that we are each currently working on, and that gets in & out thorough Git.

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