Request: a devcontainer suitable for developing Electron applications

[jorroll]

This is a feature request for a devcontainer template suitable for developing Electron applications. As far as I can tell, none of the existing devcontainer templates can be used for this task (attempting to run electron results in various errors due to missing dependencies and misconfigured settings).

[samruddhikhandale]

Hi 👋

We appreciate your request for adding a new Template, however, we only plan on accepting improvement and bug fix requests for the current set of maintained Templates. Hence, we don't have any current plans of supporting a new Electron Template.

Instead, we motivate the community to create Templates in a separate repository of their control, which they could share with the community. @jorroll Would you be interested in creating one? The devcontainers/template-starter repo has more guidance on self authoring them.

Once you've self authored and if you'd like to share it with the community, we'd recommend adding it to the index. It will make them visible in our supporting tools (like https://containers.dev/templates, Dev Containers Extension, GitHub Codespaces etc).

Feel free to ask any questions/queries along the way, feedbacks are welcome too!

[jorroll]

we don't have any current plans of supporting a new Electron Template

👍

@jorroll Would you be interested in creating one?

I opened this issue after failing to get electron to work inside a devcontainer. So no, this isn't something I'm able to do.