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Setting up your codespace

Codespaces is a dedicated environment for you. You can configure your codespace with a dev container to install your dependencies or you can add a dotfile to personalize the user settings.

Codespaces is available for user accounts using GitHub Free or GitHub Pro. For more information, see "GitHub's products."

Note: Codespaces is currently in limited public beta and subject to change. During the beta period, GitHub does not make any guarantees about the availability of Codespaces. For more information about joining the beta, see "About Codespaces."

Configuring Codespaces for your project→

You can use a devcontainer.json file to define a Codespaces environment for your repository.

Personalizing Codespaces for your account→

Codespaces uses your dotfiles repository on GitHub to personalize every new codespace that you create.

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