Simplify for just Nextcloud-App Development

[Captainpast]

According to nextcloud.com/developer and cloud.nextcloud.com/Setting up a development environment you should use this repo also for developing a Nextcloud app, but I think this docker is doing too much:

• Adding hundreds of hostnames to your etc/hosts
• Using Redis and MySQL
• maybe other things I didn't notice

For develop just a Nextcloud-App, this should be easier, for example:

$ docker run -d -p 8080:80 -v ./.container/www:/var/www/html -v .:/var/www/html/custom_apps/helloworld nextcloud

[juliusknorr]

Hi,

thanks for your feedback. You are of course free to use any other development setup, however this one is trying to cover lots of use cases that are there during day to day development work so also giving you lots of options for databases, running multiple stable versions in parallel, object storage. You can also checkout the standalone containers that are similar to your command but with auto setup for Nextcloud server version if not mounted: https://github.com/juliushaertl/nextcloud-docker-dev?tab=readme-ov-file#standalone-containers

The benefit of that over the regular comunity container is that it has development tools that might be helpful during development like xdebug.

[juliusknorr]

FYI @DaphneMuller Maybe we need to update the tutorials at some point to rather use the simple version as I can see this is quite some overhead for new devs

[DaphneMuller]

I've documented the to do. I'm not sure when we can commit to it in the team. Feel welcome to adjust the files (for all OS systems) and send them to me for publishing and testing if you have some time.

[juliusknorr]

Likely won't have time as well, but let's see ;)

[DaphneMuller]

okay, we won't forget about it :) it's in the long list for us.