This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Barış Yıldızoğlu
Hey folks,
I’m working on a small side project built around a microservices architecture — a few API services, some databases, nothing huge. The folder structure looks like this:
~/myProject/
├── docker-compose.yml
├── .git/
├── service-a/
├── service-b/
└── service-c/
When I run everything with docker-compose up, my code is on my own local machine, but dependencies live inside the containers, so VS Code keeps throwing lint/type errors (since node_modules or pip packages aren’t on my local machine).
If I try using Dev Containers and attach directly to a service, it works better — except that the .git folder isn’t mounted inside the container, so Git integration (history, branches, etc.) breaks inside VS Code. So my questions are:
- How do you handle this local vs container dev setup cleanly?
- Any best practices for microservice development with Docker Compose + VS Code Dev Containers?
- Should I just mount the whole project, including
.git, into the containers? - Maybe set up multi-stage Dev Containers?
- Or is it better to keep containers running but code outside and sync changes somehow?
- Or something else?
Would love to see how others structure their setups
Thanks in advance!
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Barış Yıldızoğlu
Barış Yıldızoğlu | Sciencx (2025-11-06T19:12:03+00:00) How Do You Set Up Local Microservices Development with Docker Compose?. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/11/06/how-do-you-set-up-local-microservices-development-with-docker-compose/
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