[candiddevmike]

Docker for local development is only useful for running services like Postgresql and Redis, or doing hot reloads using something like vite or air. The development in a box paradigm is really difficult to maintain, much prefer direnv or nix.

[c-hendricks]

Yup, at work we've been doing "dev machine bootstrap script installs version managers (nvm/mise/direnv/etc), projects use those" and have been experimenting with direnv + nix.