simplifies code contributions by fully automating the dev setup

[nisarhassan12]

Hi! 🙂

This Pr simplifies code contributions by fully automating the setup with Gitpod (A free online VS Code-like IDE) with a single click it will launch a workspace and automatically:

• clone the svelte repo.
• install the dependencies.
• run npm run dev in / and /site.

So that anyone interested in contributing can start straight away.

It seems to work well :) You can give it a try on my fork via the link below:

https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/nisarhassan12/svelte/tree/gitpod-setup

[ghost]

Interesting concept, but contributing is more than just editing code files.
Can this also run the test suite and/or debug Node (maybe yes because it is a Docker container)?

Edit:

The major problem with including this in the core is that some devs out there may already have these workflows in place or develop within Docker containers. Also, once code gets committed to the project, it becomes the maintainers responsibility to keep it in a functional state. Having to check if we've broken this coding environment will likely become very cumbersome with the velocity of releases that Svelte has lately.

[nisarhassan12]

Thanks! It can run the test suites in both / & /site

[nisarhassan12]

Interesting concept, but contributing is more than just editing code files.
Can this also run the test suite and/or debug Node (maybe yes because it is a Docker container)?

Edit:

The major problem with including this in the core is that some devs out there may already have these workflows in place or develop within Docker containers. Also, once code gets committed to the project, it becomes the maintainers responsibility to keep it in a functional state. Having to check if we've broken this coding environment will likely become very cumbersome with the velocity of releases that Svelte has lately.

Thanks @dkondrad I volunteer for maintaining the config i.e I will check regularly and anyone can freely mention me on any issues.

Gitpod is already in use by many popular Open-source projects some of them are:

• https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp
• https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus
• https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
• https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to
• https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/using-an-online-dev-environment/

[nisarhassan12]

Rebased on top of latest master @Conduitry @tanhauhau

[Conduitry]

Gitpod is certainly an impressive technical accomplishment, but I don't think this is something we want to officially integrate with and endorse and mention in the readme. The Svelte dev environment is pretty painless to set up as it is for anyone who's used Git and npm before. And given the low relative value that Gitpod would seem to provide, it doesn't sit right with me to direct people (even optionally) to use a particular third-party freemium service. (You say 'free' in your PR, but it does have per-month time limits that make it impossible to use for anything but a hobby.)

You can say that you'd be timely in keeping this up to date, but the responsibility would still ultimately fall on Svelte's maintainers to field questions about this new moving part and to make sure it keeps working (and we'd have little familiarity with this, as we'd continue to do all our work in locally checked out repos), and if the burden got to be too much, I don't want to have to worry about irritating people by the integration being removed.

So, thank you for the thought and for the cool piece of tech, but closing.

[Andrea-MariaDB-2]

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[alfred110]

.gitpod.yml