Add devcontainer.json for local development using devcontainers (#6738)

Co-authored-by: Patrice Chalin <chalin@users.noreply.github.com>

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{
+  "name": "default",
+  "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:dev-bullseye",
+  "features": {
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/node:1": {}
+  },
+  "overrideFeatureInstallOrder": [],
+  "hostRequirements": {
+    "cpus": 4,
+    "memory": "16gb",
+    "storage": "16gb"
+  },
+  "remoteEnv": {
+    "PODMAN_USERNS": "keep-id"
+  },
+  "containerUser": "vscode",
+  "postStartCommand": ".devcontainer/post-start.sh"
+}

.devcontainer/post-start.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+nvm install
+npm install

content/en/docs/contributing/development.md

@@ -28,6 +28,30 @@ Gitpod automatically installs the repo-specific packages for you.
 You're now ready to [build](#build), [serve](#serve) or make updates to the
 website files.
 
+## Development container setup
+
+{{% alert title="Note" %}}
+
+[Development (dev) containers](https://containers.dev/) are a standard. You can
+therefore you run the dev container for this repository using any tool
+supporting this standard, such as:
+
+- [GitHub Codespaces](https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/setting-up-your-project-for-codespaces/adding-a-dev-container-configuration/introduction-to-dev-containers#about-dev-containers)
+- [DevPod](https://devpod.sh/docs/developing-in-workspaces/devcontainer-json)
+- [VSCode](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers#_installation)
+
+{{% /alert %}}
+
+1.  [Fork][] and then [clone][] the website repository at
+    <{{% param github_repo %}}>.
+
+2.  Go to the repository directory.
+
+3.  Open up the project in your favorite Dev Container tool.
+
+You're now ready to [build](#build), [serve](#serve) or make updates to the
+website files.
+
 ## Local setup
 
 1.  [Fork][] and then [clone][] the website repository at

static/refcache.json

@@ -539,10 +539,18 @@
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   },
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+  },
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   },
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+    "StatusCode": 206,
+    "LastSeen": "2025-04-22T19:19:32.045577138Z"
+  },
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@@ -583,6 +591,10 @@
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   },
+  "https://containers.dev/": {
+    "StatusCode": 206,
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+  },
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@@ -927,6 +939,10 @@
     "StatusCode": 200,
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   },
+  "https://devpod.sh/docs/developing-in-workspaces/devcontainer-json": {
+    "StatusCode": 206,
+    "LastSeen": "2025-04-30T15:20:21.96523571Z"
+  },
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@@ -1239,6 +1255,10 @@
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   },
+  "https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/setting-up-your-project-for-codespaces/adding-a-dev-container-configuration/introduction-to-dev-containers#about-dev-containers": {
+    "StatusCode": 206,
+    "LastSeen": "2025-04-30T15:20:20.247498933Z"
+  },
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