How are we supposed to develop the frontend?

[rachtsingh]

Thanks Nick for creating this great template, I really appreciate how it's so minimal so you don't have to start by tearing everything down immediately.

Maybe I'm missing something basic, but from what I understand the node environment is fully installed inside the Docker container, which means that node_nodules/ is inside the container's version of assets/.

So I don't really know how to do the following:

1. Add a new package (i.e. run npm add X or yarn add X)
2. Set up VSCode to use language server support (for either Python or Javascript, since both environments live inside the container).

Is the answer basically:

1. Manually add it to package.json
2. Somehow set up the devcontainer plugin to do this?

Sorry if this is super basic, I was just confused because if I understand correctly the Python and Javascript source files are not bound 2-way to the Docker container, so editing it inside the container doesn't change our source files. So I didn't really understand how to do the latter.