# Setting up a Docker Dev Environment for the Python Project Starter

1. **Install Remote-Containers VSCode extension. This will alllow you to connect to your docker dev environment through VSCode.** 

2. **Open up your command pallete(`command + shit + p` on mac and `ctrl + shift + p` on windows) and type in `Remote-Containers: Add Development Container Configuration Files...`** 
3. **Click `From a predefined container configuration definition...`**
4. **Click `Python3 & Postgresql`**
5. **Update: `.devcontainer/devcontainer.json`**
##### From:

    // Use 'forwardPorts' to make a list of ports inside the container available locally.
    // "forwardPorts": [5000, 5432],

    // Use 'postCreateCommand' to run commands after the container is created.
    // "postCreateCommand": "pip install --user -r requirements.txt",

##### To:

    // Use 'forwardPorts' to make a list of ports inside the container available locally.
    "forwardPorts": [5000, 5432, 3000],

    // Use 'postCreateCommand' to run commands after the container is created.
    "postCreateCommand": "pip install --user -r requirements.txt && pip install --user -r dev-requirements.txt",

6. **Update: `.devcontainer/docker-compose.yml`**
##### From:

    # [Choice] Python version: 3, 3.8, 3.7, 3.6
    VARIANT: 3

##### To:

    # [Choice] Python version: 3, 3.8, 3.7, 3.6
    VARIANT: 3.9

7. **Update: `.env` DATABASE_URL to**

    DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:postgres@db