Dev Container Feature to install quarto-cli

[eitsupi]

Hello.
I have recently taken to creating a Devcontainer Feature¹ for to install quarto-cli.
https://github.com/rocker-org/devcontainer-features/tree/main/src/quarto-cli

This may be useful when using quarto-cli on GitHub Codespaces or VSCode Dev Container.

Footnotes

1. https://containers.dev/implementors/features/ ↩

[mcanouil]

Well done! (also for the RIG Devcontainer feature, https://github.com/rocker-org/devcontainer-features/blob/main/src/r-rig/README.md)
I was looking to do this as well since the "custom Devcontainer Feature" feature was released earlier this month¹.

I'll add this to Awesome Quarto list soon: mcanouil/awesome-quarto#124

Footnotes

1. https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2022/09/15/dev-container-features ↩

[agerlach]

This is awesome and extremely helpful. Is there any plans on adding an installChromium option?

https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/diagrams.html#chrome-install

[eitsupi]

This is awesome and extremely helpful. Is there any plans on adding an installChromium option?

No.
As noted on the website, quarto tools install chromium does not work on Docker containers.
Users must install Chromium or Google Chrome on their own.

[agerlach]

makes sense. Thanks

[eitsupi]

Hi, I added a new option to combine with the apt-packages Feature to install Chromium.
The following devcontainer.json should work.

{
    "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:debian",
    "features": {
        "ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer-features/quarto-cli:1": {
            "installChromium": true
        },
        "ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer-features/apt-packages:1": {
            "packages": "chromium"
        }
    }
}

Please check https://github.com/rocker-org/devcontainer-features/tree/main/src/quarto-cli