"no docker" is a huge selling point for me

fb03 · on Oct 27, 2023

Can you expand on that? my use case is pretty simple and I haven't been able to find something on it that really bothers me.

Also, about PG: I run each project in a different port. Not defaulting to PG's default 5432 makes it able to easily run several projects at once without clashing, just like you would with several SQLite files. I don't really see any drawbacks in using a little docker compose for your local dev set-up.

TehShrike · on Oct 28, 2023

> Can you expand on that?

I spent a little time trying to learn docker fundamentals and it was so obtuse and broad that it really scared me off.

I like containers in theory, but I'm not huge on the overhead of VMs, and I'm leery of getting such a complex tool involved with my deployments.

fb03 · on Oct 29, 2023

I see. Thank you for the reply.

For something as simple as having your own little DB side by side to your project, it is really not that complicated. A 5 line docker-compose.yml gets you a fully encapsulated PG instance on a custom port. One per project.

I hope you give it a try someday if you get the chance - also, it's a process in a "jails"-like environment, not a VM, not another full blown kernel running - so really the performance overhead is minimal to none - just like if you were running PG "locally" (well, you actually are)