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Docker Container Support in CDT [message #1824339]

Tue, 14 April 2020 06:52

dev mapluz

Messages: 3
Registered: February 2019

Junior Member

hi
i have installed the Docker Tooling in Eclipse 2020-03 (4.156.0) on ubuntu 18

is it possible to debug nodejs / vuejs applications in a docker container with eclipse ide

thanks for your information

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Re: Docker Container Support in CDT [message #1824348 is a reply to message #1824339]

Tue, 14 April 2020 08:39

Mickael Istria

Messages: 865
Registered: July 2009
Location: Grenoble, France

Senior Member

Hi,

A Docker container is a remote machine like any other. Whether you star the Docker container with the Eclipse tools, or CLI or whatever is equivalent: you'll need to use a Node js remote debugger to "contact" the running node.js application and debug is with a host/port couple.
Eclipse Wild Web Developer https://github.com/eclipse/wildwebdeveloper/ can do that pretty well.
Video demo linked from https://github.com/eclipse/wildwebdeveloper/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md#easily-define-root-mapping-for-remote-nodejs-debugger shows how to concretely use that.

I know some 3rd party application like Red Hat Code Ready Studio or JBoss Tools have some more direct link between container and debugger. However, the layers of "magic" don't necessarily make things easier to understand and manipulate than a remote debuggging.

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