Developers, rejoice! A new alternative to Dev Containers has emerged, dubbed Flox. According to Pierre Beucher's article on Medium, Flox offers a more streamlined and reproducible way to set up development environments. Unlike Dev Containers, which can be tedious to use, Flox provides an easy-to-use manifest file (manifest.toml) that automatically detects Node.js and adds relevant packages. With Flox, you can also share your environment with your team by pushing the .flox directory into your repository.

Source: https://medium.com/@pierre_49652/flox-better-alternative-to-dev-containers-d02e1a2ec423