Completely agreed. My workplace adopted Docker for local development first, before using it anywhere else. Aside from the "volume mount wiping the `node_modules` folder that was installed in the image but doesn't exist in the host on first boot" problem, it's been an absolute dream.
We had some issues with docker-compose for our use-cases, such as persistent database even when recreating every container from scratch, so I hacked on some stuff that become "dup" [0] (nee. docker-up)
Ps. it's written in Nim, which was a lot of fun!
[0] https://github.com/girvo/dup
