From a3cb31c5010d035314245b27f450db3437d921c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ari Chivukula <ari.c@icloud.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:10:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Codespaces config (#702)

---
 .devcontainer/devcontainer.json | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 .github/dependabot.yml          | 12 ++++++++----
 CONTRIBUTING.md                 |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .devcontainer/devcontainer.json

diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4b2eb501
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "name": "Default",
+  "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/python:3.13",
+  "features": {
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers-extra/features/black:latest": {}
+  },
+  "customizations": {
+    "vscode": {
+      "extensions": [
+        "ms-python.python",
+        "github.vscode-github-actions"
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "postCreateCommand": "pip3 install -r requirements.txt"
+}
diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index ed58bff3..5817a4fb 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@
 
 version: 2
 updates:
-  - package-ecosystem: "pip"
-    directory: "/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "daily"
+- package-ecosystem: "pip"
+  directory: "/"
+  schedule:
+    interval: "daily"
+- package-ecosystem: "devcontainers"
+  directory: "/"
+  schedule:
+    interval: "daily"
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 3cfc69e7..754aade9 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -33,3 +33,5 @@ use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Consult
 information on using pull requests.
 
 Any modified python code must conform to the standards of [black](https://github.com/psf/black).
+
+Contributors, especially those modifying more than just `related_website_sets.JSON`, are encouraged to use [Codespaces](https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/setting-up-your-project-for-codespaces/adding-a-dev-container-configuration/setting-up-your-python-project-for-codespaces) as all the packages you need will be set up for you.