Conveniences for running Datasette on GitHub Codespaces

Install this plugin in the same environment as Datasette.

datasette install datasette-codespaces

Using Datasette in GitHub Codespaces provides a detailed tutorial introduction to this plugin.

Install this when you are using Datasette inside of GitHub Codespaces. It makes the following changes:

• All requests will identified as representing the root actor - provided Datasette is running inside Codespaces. This is detected through the presence of the CODESPACE_NAME environment variable. GitHub restricts access to servers running in the Codespaces environment based on GitHub authentication, so treating all requests as root should be acceptably secure.
• The datasette-x-forwarded-host plugin will be installed, ensuring links to other pages within Datasette such as facet navigation work correctly.

To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd datasette-codespaces
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

pytest