diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 2c46fa8a..cdb8c934 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ^.*\.Rproj$
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
-.travis.yml
 ^_pkgdown\.yml$
 ^docs$
 ^pkgdown$
@@ -12,3 +11,4 @@
 ^appveyor\.yml$
 ^\.lintr$
 ^data-raw$
+^docker-compose.yml$
diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..29d13375
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "image": "ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer/r-ver:4",
+  "features": {
+    "ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer-features/r-apt:latest": {},
+    "ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer-features/apt-packages:1": {
+      "packages": "r-cran-rapbase"
+    }
+  },
+  "overrideFeatureInstallOrder": [
+    "ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer-features/r-apt"
+  ],
+  "mounts": [
+    "source=${localEnv:HOME}${localEnv:USERPROFILE}/.ssh,target=/home/rstudio/.ssh,type=bind,consistency=cached",
+    "source=${localEnv:HOME}${localEnv:USERPROFILE}/.gitconfig,target=/home/rstudio/.gitconfig,type=bind,consistency=cached"
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 2a4a5438..87252311 100644
--- a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Contributing to rapbase
 
 This outlines how to propose a change to rapbase. 
-For more detailed info about contributing to this, and other tidyverse packages, please see the
-[**development contributing guide**](https://rstd.io/tidy-contrib). 
+For more detailed info about contributing, please see the
+[**tidyverse development contributing guide**](https://rstd.io/tidy-contrib). 
 
 ## Fixing typos
 
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d1e57080..e0841cf6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 .Rproj.user
 .Rhistory
 .RData
-inst/doc
-inst/jrxml/*.jasper
 vignettes/*.pdf
-docs/
\ No newline at end of file
+docs/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ef3d0df9..49a5ab50 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ remotes::install_github("Rapporteket/rapbase@*release")
 Or install the development version from GitHub with:
 ```r
 remotes::install("Rapporteket/rapbase")
-```
-Alternatively, the package source code can be [cloned from GitHub](https://github.com/Rapporteket/rapbase) and built locally. 
 
 ## Usage
 Once the package is installed functions can be called from within R, *e.g.*:
@@ -43,6 +41,16 @@ Please provide any comments (*e.g.* on proposed enhancements, shortcomings, erro
 ## Contributing
 If you want to make changes to this project please follow the [Contributing guide](https://rapporteket.github.io/rapbase/CONTRIBUTING.html). Proposed changes will be processed based on manual code reviews. Code that is accepted will be merged into the main branch and used for full scale TESTING and QA prior to making a release for PRODUCTION deployment.
 
+For kick-starting, a development environment set-up is included and may be applied if [docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/) and [docker-compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/) is at hand. After cloning *rapbase* the development environment can be startet from a terminal at the local work copy root directory by:
+```bash
+docker-compose up
+```
+Navigate a browser to [localhost:8787](localhost:8787), log in to the [RStudio IDE](https://posit.co/products/open-source/rstudio/) and initiate the project by "clicking" the file *rapbase.Rproj* inside the *rapbase* directory. For development all suggested imports for the *rapbase* R package will be needed. To make sure these are installed use the R Console and run
+```r
+devtools::install_dev_deps()
+```
+After installing has finished all should be set to start change-build-test iterations :rocket:
+
 ## Ethics
 Please note that the 'rapbase' project is released with a
 [Contributor Code of Conduct](http://rapporteket.github.io/rapbase/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.html).
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fcb3d50e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+version: '3.3'
+
+services:
+  db:
+    image: mysql:5.7
+    command: --innodb-log-file-size=500M --innodb_strict_mode=0
+    restart: "no"
+    environment:
+      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
+
+  dev:
+    depends_on:
+      - db
+    image: rapporteket/dev:nightly
+    volumes:
+      - .:/home/rstudio/rapbase/
+      - ~/.ssh:/home/rstudio/.ssh
+      - ~/.gitconfig:/home/rstudio/.gitconfig
+    ports:
+      - "8787:8787"
+      - "3838:3838"
+    dns:
+      - 8.8.8.8
+    restart: "no"
+    environment:
+      PASSWORD: password
+      DB_HOST: db
+      DB_USER: root
+      DB_PASS: root
+
+  adminer:
+    depends_on:
+      - db
+    image: adminer
+    restart: "no"
+    environment:
+      ADMINER_PLUGINS: frames
+    ports:
+      - 8888:8080