# Developing Discourse using a Dev Container

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/developing-discourse-using-a-dev-container/336366>\
**Category:** Developer Guides\
**Created:** [November 15, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developing-discourse-using-a-dev-container/336366 "2024-11-15T16:44:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 26, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developing-discourse-using-a-dev-container/336366/4 "2025-03-26T12:48:20Z")

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Maybe there is a better way, but to work on plugins I have a discourse-plugins sibling folder alongside my main discourse repo folder. This mounts to /workspace/plugins so I can then create symlinks within the container.

This is what I added to `mounts` in devcontainer.json:  
`"source=${localWorkspaceFolder}/../${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}-plugins,target=/workspace/plugins,type=bind"`

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