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Provide canonical dev setup #1876

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Setting up a local instance of the TinyPilot web server can be tricky, because the backend has specific requirements regarding the environment – e.g.:

  • On device, it runs on Raspberry Pi OS, which is a specialized flavor of Debian
  • Certain system packages need to be installed
  • The application makes certain assumptions about the executing user or system paths

Without intimate knowledge of these requirements, it can be challenging to bootstrap a dev environment that is fully (mostly) working.

One idea here would be to provide a tailored Docker image, which mimics the device environment closely.

This may also simplify some of our development procedures, such as running the Playwright end-to-end tests.

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