How do you develop with Docker?

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Hello. I've been developing django + vuejs in Docker + docker-componse for a long time and I feel like there is some concise way to simplify the current scheme.
Now the scheme is as follows:
1. Container with janga based on python:alpine. It has two folders: /app and /app_autobuild. Files get into /app_autobuild when the image is built. Files from the local machine are synchronized in /app by composition and a variable is passed to env that launches gunicorn in the /app folder on the local machine and /app_autobuild on the prod. It is felt that it is possible to do something cunningly so that there is no duplication of folders.
2. There is a container with frontend and nginx, multi-stage build. First, statics are built from the vue application in the container with the node, then an image is created from nginx:alpine, where the result of the front build (dist) is copied from the previous image, and all this is distributed along with proxying to djanga.
3. There is a container (which, it seems to me, can be liquidated) with a node, it is only for the dev-environment, where the local dist is synced and from there it is distributed with janga. (Yes, on the dev environment, jang distributes all the statics)
The question is: how do you arrange containers so that it is convenient for both development and sales? Perhaps you should use two Dockerfiles for django + two for the front: one pair for the dev environment, one for the prod? Perhaps the docker-compose config allows you to include folders depending on env variables? I would like to know some best practices for all this.

Answer 1

Docker Compose is not for sale, that's it.
More suitable tools, where all your problems have already been solved - Flynn or, more complicated, Kubernetes.
And yes, there is a Docker inside them.
However, it is not necessary to switch to Compose, it is enough to look at the ideology described above.