Question

Your team maintains a large monorepo where creating a new Codespace takes over ten minutes because dependencies must be installed and the project must be compiled each time. New contributors are frustrated by the long wait before they can start coding. Which Codespaces capability should you configure to reduce this startup time?

Accepted Answer

Enable Codespaces prebuilds so the environment is built ahead of time and ready when a Codespace is created

Answer

Switch contributors to the github.dev web editor to avoid the setup entirely

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Increase the machine type to the largest available option for every new Codespace

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Add all dependencies to the repository's .gitignore file so they are skipped on startup