From be556c76d9f7c215c2bb088169b615475d47949b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Iain Sproat <68657+iainsproat@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 09:19:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(devcontainers): Move post create command to a script
 (#4090)

- it can be linted and has IDE code-completion
- we can add a lot more things to the script without sacrificing readability
---
 .devcontainer/devcontainer.json    |  2 +-
 .devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100755 .devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh

diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
index 5f65b7580..418edea78 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
   ],
 
   // Use 'postCreateCommand' to run commands after the container is created.
-  "postCreateCommand": "yarn && yarn build:public && cp -n /workspaces/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}/packages/server/.env-example /workspaces/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}/packages/server/.env && cp -n /workspaces/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}/packages/frontend-2/.env.example /workspaces/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}/packages/frontend-2/.env",
+  "postCreateCommand": "/workspaces/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}/.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh",
 
   // Configure tool-specific properties.
   // "customizations": {},
diff --git a/.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh b/.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..7b8817014
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -eox pipefail
+
+echo "Running postCreateCommand.sh"
+
+# determine where the script is located, navigate into that directory, then find the root of the git repo in which it is located
+SCRIPT_DIR=$( cd -- "$( dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )
+cd "${SCRIPT_DIR}"
+GIT_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
+
+echo "Setting up environment variables by copying .env files"
+cp -n "${GIT_ROOT}/packages/server/.env-example" "${GIT_ROOT}/packages/server/.env" || true
+cp -n "${GIT_ROOT}/packages/frontend-2/.env.example" "${GIT_ROOT}/packages/frontend-2/.env" || true
+
+echo "Installing nodejs dependencies and building shared packages"
+yarn
+yarn build:public