# (outdated) Guide to Setting Up Discourse Development Environment - GitHub Codespace

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/outdated-guide-to-setting-up-discourse-development-environment-github-codespace/307231
**Category:** Developers
**Tags:** dev-install
**Created:** [May 8, 2024, 10:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/outdated-guide-to-setting-up-discourse-development-environment-github-codespace/307231 "2024-05-08T10:44:56Z")
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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/outdated-guide-to-setting-up-discourse-development-environment-github-codespace/307231/9 "2024-11-14T12:20:09Z")

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@jordan-violet thanks for creating this guide with all the workarounds that were previously necessary 🙏

I’m glad to say that we’ve now merged a bunch of changes to our devcontainer/codespaces configuration, which should make it much easier to get things going without needing to fork or manually configure anything.

Here’s the official guide:

> [@Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developing-discourse-on-github-codespaces/336131):
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> [GitHub Codespaces](https://github.com/features/codespaces) is a very fast way to get started with Discourse development. Their free tier is good for 30 hours per month of a 4-core machine. Getting Started Navigate to [the github repository](https://github.com/discourse/discourse) Press the , (comma) key on your keyboard, to open GitHub codespaces Use ‘change options’ to customize the machine. Technically, the 2-core machine will work, but we recommend using at least 4-core for a better experience. Click “Create Codespace” Wait for the contai…

I’m gonna add a note to the top of the OP here, directing people to the official guides ✍

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