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From: kasun <kasun.jayatilaka@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:17:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added documentation for code-server setup

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+# Technical preparation for adding documentation
+
+Before documenting all my research for the planning phase of the app there are several technical preparations to arrange:
+
+* I will be coding in a [code-server](https://github.com/coder/code-server) docker instance so that I can develop and build my app in a central location. This way I'm not dependent on building the project on every machine I work from.
+* I will be using a locally hosted docker instance on my Proxmox server to deploy the code-server container.
+* After preparing the container I will connect it to my self hosted Git(ea) repository to ensure a git flow from the very beginning.
+
+## Code-Server docker container deployment
+
+I use Portainer to setup my docker-compose yaml:
+
+```
+services:
+  code-server:
+    image: code-server-dev
+    container_name: code-server
+    environment:
+      - PUID=1000
+      - PGID=1000
+      - TZ=Europe/Vienna
+#      - PASSWORD= #optional
+#      - HASHED_PASSWORD= #optional
+#      - SUDO_PASSWORD=password #optional
+#      - SUDO_PASSWORD_HASH= #optional
+#      - PROXY_DOMAIN=code-server.my.domain #optional
+      - DEFAULT_WORKSPACE=/config/workspace #optional
+    volumes:
+      - /home/pi/docker/vscode:/config
+    ports:
+      - 8443:8443
+    restart: unless-stopped
+```
+
+Before deploying the container I configure a Dockerfile to install openjdk, maven, npm, nodejs and yarn and set the environment variables for Java to ensure the Java and React development. Since the code-server container doesn't come with root access for its default user abc out of the box every root action will be configured here:
+
+```
+FROM lscr.io/linuxserver/code-server:latest
+
+USER root
+
+RUN apt update && apt install -y \
+    openjdk-25-jdk maven \
+    nodejs npm \
+ && npm install -g yarn \
+ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+ENV JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-25-openjdk-amd64
+ENV PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:${PATH}"
+
+USER abc
+```
+
+Build the custom image and name it code-server-dev which is referenced in the docker-compose image above:
+
+```
+docker build -t code-server-dev .
+```
+
+Generate ssh keys within the code server folder to connect to my Gitea instance. Navigate to the volume and execute:
+
+```
+ssh-keygen -t ed25519
+```
+
+Save the keys to the .ssh folder.
+
+Now deploy the docker-compose and check all the configurations:
+
+```
+java --version
+mvn --version
+npm --version
+yarn --version
+nodejs --version
+ls -l /config/.ssh/id_ed25519
+```
+
+Copy the public key and paste it into the SSH-keys of the git instance
+Connect the ssh keys of code-server to the git instance (here the -p flag is necessary because I defined a separate SSH port since it is running in docker and I need to avoid using the docker SSH port):
+
+```
+ssh -T -p 222 git@192.168.1.208
+```
+
+Add the key and make the initial git commit in code-server:
+
+```
+mkdir where-is-my-stuff
+cd where-is-my-stuff
+touch README.md
+git init
+git config --global init.defaultBranch main
+git branch -m main
+git checkout -b main
+git add .
+git commit -m "initial commit"git config --global user.email "email@email.com"
+git config --global user.name "kasun"
+git commit -m "initial commit"
+git remote add origin ssh://git@192.168.1.208:222/kasun/Where-is-my-stuff.git
+git push -u origin main
+
+```
+
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