Code navigation lost in VScode with Django + Docker

Question

I could not find the code definition using Ctrl + click when I use Docker + Django in my project, since source code are now in container. How could I configure my VScode to enable code navigation?

Answer 1

Here is some kind of hack that i am using right now. create a virtual environment.

python3 -m venv venv

Activate the virtual environment in terminal using

source venv/bin/activate

now install dependencies from requirements.txt

pip3 install -r requirements.txt 

configure IDE with virtual enviornment. this will give you snippets etc. Now run commands inside the container

docker-compose -f local.yml run --rm django python manage.py migrate
docker-compose -f local.yml run --rm django python manage.py runserver