docs: codespaces - use bash script for postCreateCommand in tutorial?

[mandrasch]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Is your feature request related to a problem?

The current tutorial uses a one liner for the postCreateCommand (https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/latest/users/install/ddev-installation/#github-codespaces):

"postCreateCommand": "bash -c 'ddev config global --omit-containers=ddev-router && ddev config --auto && ddev debug download-images'"

My current experience is that

• a) ddev config --auto is not necessary when projects are already configured
• b) an external script is used by many people since you can add more commands there
• c) ddev poweroff is necessary for rebuilds, because codespaces keeps some docker containers, see docs: codespaces - provide official postCreateCommand script for ddev projects? #5071 (comment)

Describe your solution

Solution which I use currently (e.g. https://github.com/mandrasch/ddev-craftcms-vite):

"postCreateCommand": "chmod +x .devcontainer/setup_project.sh && .devcontainer/setup_project.sh"

#!/bin/bash
set -ex
ddev config global --omit-containers=ddev-router
ddev debug download-images

# catch rebuilds
ddev poweroff

# start ddev project
ddev start -y

# normal project setup
ddev composer install 

Describe alternatives

No response

Additional context

I'm happy to provide a PR as well, did not want to complicate things in the other, previous PRs.

[rfay]

I don't object to this approach;

Note that ddev config --omit-containers=ddev-router should be irrelevant, as DDEV turns off the router when Codespaces or Gitpod is detected.

[mandrasch]

I don't object to this approach;

Note that ddev config --omit-containers=ddev-router should be irrelevant, as DDEV turns off the router when Codespaces or Gitpod is detected.

Thanks, good information!

I created a new PR draft here quickly: #5290

[rfay]

Closing this in favor of tracking your excellent work in

• docs: improve and simplify codespaces guide, use separate script #5290

Thanks for caring for codespaces usage and users!