How to mount devcontainer to $HOME - visual-studio-code

Question

I'm trying to setup a devcontainer which mounts the workspace in VSCode to /home/node and puts everything in the project into $HOME in docker.
the reason why I want to do this is so when the project mounts into docker I have everything contained in the individual projects I'm working on.
I get an error, when running with this configuration.
anyone have suggestions on how to achieve this?
this is my devcontainer.json
// For format details, see https://aka.ms/vscode-remote/devcontainer.json or the definition README at
// https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/tree/master/containers/typescript-node-lts
{
"name": "Node.js (latest LTS) & TypeScript",
"dockerFile": "Dockerfile",
// Use 'settings' to set *default* container specific settings.json values on container create.
// You can edit these settings after create using File > Preferences > Settings > Remote.
"settings": {
"terminal.integrated.shell.linux": "/bin/bash"
},
// Uncomment the next line if you want to publish any ports.
"appPort": [3000, 8000, 6006],
// Uncomment the next line to run commands after the container is created.
"postCreateCommand": "mkdir ~/.ssh && cp .ssh/* ~/.ssh && chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa",
// Uncomment the next line to use a non-root user. On Linux, this will prevent
// new files getting created as root, but you may need to update the USER_UID
// and USER_GID in .devcontainer/Dockerfile to match your user if not 1000.
"runArgs": ["-u", "node"],
// Add the IDs of extensions you want installed when the container is created in the array below.
"extensions": [
"dbaeumer.vscode-eslint",
"esbenp.prettier-vscode",
"Orta.vscode-jest"
],
"workspaceMount": "src=/home/node,dst=/home/node,type=volume,volume-driver=local",
"workspaceFolder": "/home/node"
}
and my Dockerfile
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
# Licensed under the MIT License. See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2090316 for license information.
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FROM node:lts
# Avoid warnings by switching to noninteractive
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
# The node image comes with a base non-root 'node' user which this Dockerfile
# gives sudo access. However, for Linux, this user's GID/UID must match your local
# user UID/GID to avoid permission issues with bind mounts. Update USER_UID / USER_GID
# if yours is not 1000. See https://aka.ms/vscode-remote/containers/non-root-user.
ARG USER_UID=1000
ARG USER_GID=$USER_UID
# Configure apt and install packages
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends apt-utils dialog 2>&1 \
#
# Verify git and needed tools are installed
&& apt-get -y install git iproute2 procps \
#
# Remove outdated yarn from /opt and install via package
# so it can be easily updated via apt-get upgrade yarn
&& rm -rf /opt/yarn-* \
&& rm -f /usr/local/bin/yarn \
&& rm -f /usr/local/bin/yarnpkg \
&& apt-get install -y curl apt-transport-https lsb-release \
&& curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/$(lsb_release -is | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')/pubkey.gpg | apt-key add - 2>/dev/null \
&& echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/$(lsb_release -is | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')/ stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list \
&& apt-get update \
&& apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends yarn \
#
# Install tools globally
&& npm install -g jest prettier eslint typescript localtunnel \
#
# [Optional] Update a non-root user to match UID/GID - see https://aka.ms/vscode-remote/containers/non-root-user.
&& if [ "$USER_GID" != "1000" ]; then groupmod node --gid $USER_GID; fi \
&& if [ "$USER_UID" != "1000" ]; then usermod --uid $USER_UID node; fi \
# [Optional] Add add sudo support for non-root user
&& apt-get install -y sudo \
&& echo node ALL=\(root\) NOPASSWD:ALL > /etc/sudoers.d/node \
&& chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/node \
#
# Clean up
&& apt-get autoremove -y \
&& apt-get clean -y \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# Switch back to dialog for any ad-hoc use of apt-get
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=

Answer 1

not 100% sure, as you did not share the error you encoutered, but
it might be because you use:
"workspaceMount": "src=/home/node,dst=/home/node,type=volume,volume-driver=local",
when it's not a 'volume' in your case. The type should be 'bind' here.
see here for more information.