How I fixed a Dev Container that was failing only on one laptop

I work with a small product team using React, Node, and PostgreSQL. Recently, I had to resolve a specific case: the Dev Container would start up on my machine, but on a new laptop, it would fail when installing native dependencies. The symptom that made me investigate it seriously was that Docker was returning exit code 127, Cursor was indexing generated folders, and npm ci was getting stuck…

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