templates VS codespaces-jupyter

You can create a Next.js GitHub Codespace template by navigating to https://github.com/codespaces/templates. Then choosing the “Use this template” button for Next.js. This will trigger a codespace to open with boilerplate Next.js code with a browser preview.

Whether you are joining a team, contributing to an open source, or you’re just trying to learn how to code, setting up your environment as a new developer is an overwhelming task. For companies, project configurations can be automated, ensuring that any developer contributing to the codebase can effortlessly set up and run projects. If you’re a single developer, trying to learn a new programming language or framework, you can leverage GitHub Codespace Templates. We have templates for frameworks and languages like, Next.js, Ruby, Django with boilerplate code. This immediate access circumvents the time-consuming setup phase.

I use GitHub Codespace templates when I want to avoid installing boilerplate package dependencies and setting up my environment from scratch. It comes in handy when I want to spin up a quick proof of concept or deliver a demo. In our case, we want to save time installing Next.js and its accompanying dependencies.

For this tutorial, we’ll navigate to https://github.com/codespaces/templates and choose the React template.

Codespaces has templates. Templates include boilerplate code, forwarded ports, and a configured development container for some of the most common application frameworks like Next.js, React.js, Django, and Jupyter Notebook. Templates provide developers with a sandbox to build, test, and debug applications.

If you navigate to the URL https://github.com/codespaces/templates, you'll see a list of templates. You can choose a template that you'd like to use. For this example, I'll use the Next.js template. We'll see a few files inside this template, including a .devcontainer.json, components, and CSS.

You can find my repository here: https://github.com/galaxy-bytes/codespaces-jupyter