Author: Thomas Patton
One line setup for Neovim inside of an Ubuntu Docker container
From inside a Docker container, clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/thomaspttn/nvim-docker.git /root/nvim-docker/
And then run the setup script with a Github link to your Neovim configuration:
source /root/nvim-docker/install.sh <YOUR_NVIM_GIT_REPO>
For example:
source /root/nvim-docker/install.sh https://github.com/thomaspttn/nvim.git
Note that this install overwrites several environment variables related to XDG Configuration.
For a lot of my development work I need to develop inside Docker containers rather than my host machine. Setting up Neovim every time I do a docker run seemed like a pain, though, so I wrote this setup script to automate that process. install.sh installs the Neovim AppImage along with other tools like ripgrepand bear that I use for daily development. In the interest of supporting arbitrary configurations, install.sh can optionally take a link to a nvim Git repo specifying your custom Neovim setup.
Importantly, I write a lot of this data into the /root/ directory of the container. This avoids issues with duplicate Neovim files in the case that the Docker container is mounted (which is always in my case). I also export a number of environment variables related to XDG configuration to account for this change.
I could just make a new "enhanced" version of my image so that I don't need to do run the setup every time but there are a few reasons I don't do this. Firstly, I typically run my images using a specific binary and I don't want to deal with needing to rewrite that. I also switch between docker images and so I don't want to have to keep track of multiple "enhanced" images. If this changes in the future I'll add in the functionality.
This project could definitely become bigger if people find it to be useful. If you've got something you'd like to add, open up a pull request!
This project is licensed under the MIT License.