After trying so many solutions, I think none of the approaches are ideal, details explained @ Frontend Learning Note 3 - Vagrant, VM & Shell. Right now I am looking for the possibilities of directly coding inside the virtual machine. May have drawbacks also, but certainly feasible. The story on this new topic may be listed in episode 4/5 of this series. (The No.4 is already planed and half way done.)
A minimal vagrant file for front end development
Support: Windows 7 + virtualbox
- Install vagrant, make sure you can access it from Terminal/CMD/git-bash/any command-line tool you prefer (Obviously)
- Put this Vagrantfile under the root directory of your project.
- Run
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest(Optional) - Make sure your have a NPM project.json file in your project folder, specifying all the packages you want to install.
- Now please start webpack-dev-server from
vagrant ssh. I assume that you use webpack, so I have opened 2 webpack-specified ports for you, you are welcome.
To be clear, I am also a newbie, afterall this is just my own dog food. Hence you have to use with care. According to my experience, there are 3 main drawbacks.
- The initialization will be very very slow. Because I would like to use a plain OS image + provision scripts, So you have to bare with the slow installation.
- The feature is pretty limited. For example, there is no certificate protection like laravel/homestead, and there is no DB, as it claims, it is only for frontend development.
- Lack of testing. Seriously, it is only tested locally on Windows 7. What I can say is I tested every single line of it, but I cannot guarantee whether it is gonna work on your environment or not.
I believe my code and comments are straight-forward enough. Check with Stack Overflow or Official Doc if needed.
If you spot any bugs, a new issue tickets is very very welcome. However please don't directly throw me enquires, as I may not answer u correctly. Have fun~
This project has referenced many popular vagrant configurations, including: