From 9888d68f4bed4f93e1c7e7dde28c0eb6b3d4de9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Plaisted Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:52:16 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update development.md --- docs/docker/development.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/docker/development.md b/docs/docker/development.md index 913cccb16b..668caf1065 100644 --- a/docs/docker/development.md +++ b/docs/docker/development.md @@ -7,7 +7,10 @@ Normally, you'd rebuild your images from scratch with `docker-compose build` (or this takes way too long for development. It has to copy the entire repo to each image and rebuild it there. The `docker-compose.dev.yml` file bypasses this problem by mounting binaries, startup scripts, and other data to -special, slimmed down images (of which the Dockerfile is usually defined in `/debug/Dockerfile`). +special, slimmed down images (of which the Dockerfile is usually defined in `/debug/Dockerfile`). + +These dev images will use your _locally built code_, so you'll need to build locally with gradle first +(and every time you want to update the instance). Building locally should be much faster than building on Docker. We highly recommend you just invoke the `docker/dev.sh` script we've included. It is pretty small if you want to read it to see what it does, but it ends up using our `docker-compose.dev.yml` file.