diff --git a/template/docker-compose.yml b/template/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..60505c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/template/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#Wait a while for all components are up and running
+version: "3"
+services:
+  graph-node:
+    image: graphprotocol/graph-node
+    ports:
+      - "8000:8000"
+      - "8001:8001"
+      - "8020:8020"
+      - "8030:8030"
+      - "8040:8040"
+    depends_on:
+      - ipfs
+      - postgres
+    extra_hosts:
+      - host.docker.internal:host-gateway
+      - host.docker.internal:host-gateway
+    environment:
+      postgres_host: postgres
+      postgres_user: graph-node
+      postgres_pass: let-me-in
+      postgres_db: graph-node
+      ipfs: "ipfs:5001"
+#      ethereum: "mainnet:http://host.docker.internal:8545" #Make sure you have it in your .env file
+      GRAPH_LOG: info
+    env_file:
+      - .env
+  ipfs:
+    image: ipfs/kubo:v0.17.0
+    ports:
+      - "5001:5001"
+    volumes:
+      - ./data/ipfs:/data/ipfs
+  postgres:
+    image: postgres:14
+    ports:
+      - "5432:5432"
+    command:
+      [
+        "postgres",
+        "-cshared_preload_libraries=pg_stat_statements",
+        "-cmax_connections=200",
+      ]
+    environment:
+      POSTGRES_USER: graph-node
+      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: let-me-in
+      POSTGRES_DB: graph-node
+      # FIXME: remove this env. var. which we shouldn't need. Introduced by
+      # <https://github.com/graphprotocol/graph-node/pull/3511>, maybe as a
+      # workaround for https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/6270?
+      PGDATA: "/var/lib/postgresql/data"
+      POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS: "-E UTF8 --locale=C"
+    volumes:
+      - ./data/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
diff --git a/template/package.json b/template/package.json
index 6281d7c..06b50e0 100644
--- a/template/package.json
+++ b/template/package.json
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
     "auth": "graph auth --product hosted-service SUBGRAPH_KEY",
     "codegen": "graph codegen subgraph.yaml",
     "build": "graph build subgraph.yaml",
+    "create-local": "graph create --node http://localhost:8020/ v3",
+    "remove-local": "graph remove --node http://localhost:8020/ v3",
+    "deploy-local": "graph deploy --node http://localhost:8020/ --ipfs http://localhost:5001 v3",
     "format": "biome format . --write",
     "lint": "biome check . --organize-imports-enabled=false",
     "lint:fix": "yarn run lint  --apply"