Extend microsoft/vscode-remote-try-* and/or github/codespaces-* repo templates?

[jcbhmr]

https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/repositories?q=vscode-remote-try-&type=all&language=&sort=

• vscode-remote-try-sqlserver
• vscode-remote-try-cpp
• vscode-remote-try-dotnet
• vscode-remote-try-rust
• vscode-remote-try-java
• vscode-remote-try-node
• vscode-remote-try-php
• vscode-remote-try-go
• vscode-remote-try-python

these show up in vscode in the try a devcontainer thing https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers#_quick-start-try-a-development-container
don't know if this is superseded by the templates thing (can templates do regular files, or just .devcontainer/* files?) or if we want to avoid this for now

https://github.com/orgs/github/repositories?q=codespaces-&type=all&language=&sort=

• codespaces-codeql
• codespaces-blank
• codespaces-rails
• codespaces-react
• codespaces-express
• codespaces-actions-playground
• codespaces-jupyter
• codespaces-django
• codespaces-nextjs
• codespaces-preact
• codespaces-learn-with-me
• codespaces-flask
• codespaces-jetbrains-feedback
• codespaces-getting-started-ml

these show up in https://github.com/codespaces
might be worth it for more involved templates like a full laravel php project with a mysql/mariadb docker-compose devcontainer and all the scaffolding to go with it? that's just an example idea. idk if this is something that we should just say "not devcontainers-community; leave it to the tooling orgs or individuals"

i want to stress again this is an idea that, given current focus, probably isn't a good fit for right this instant but is something that i'm interested in possibly looking into further. particularily because i had an instance over the past two days of fiddling with a docker-compose thing for a mysql php project (hence the example i used above) where i had lackluster and/or outdated demos/examples/docs.

basically i'm saying that i think this "quickstart" template repo thing is an area that doesn't currently have a go-to solution. at least i couldn't find one lol 🤪

[eitsupi]

I believe only first-party repositories are integrated into VS Code. (existing since the time of https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers)
e.g. microsoft/vscode-dev-containers#1089

[jcbhmr]

you're right! it wouldn't be able to be integrated into vscode. 😢 but it's still something that i'd be interested in exploring at sometime in the next few weeks/months. maybe this is something to put under my own jcbhmr/* umbrella instead of trying to stick my own idea under devcontainers-community/*

actually scratch this idea; it looks like somebody else has already tackled the idea of having community templates for popular things: https://github.com/codespaces-examples