However, I’d still occasionally use the Docker Desktop instance on my Windows 11 dev VM, even though it had started to look ...

The traditional way of using Docker Compose is to create a directory, move to it, create a Compose file, and then build it.

⚡ FastAPI for the Python backend API. If you want to have a private repository, GitHub won't allow you to simply fork it as it doesn't allow changing the visibility of forks.