added documentation for code-server setup #11

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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
```