Quarto Extension Development with Lua in a Devcontainer

This repository houses a devcontainer that setups a Quarto extension development environment. The container is setup to work with GitHub Codespaces to instantly have a cloud-based developer workflow.

You can try out the Codespace by clicking on the following button:

Note: Codespaces are available to Students and Teachers for free up to 180 core hours per month through GitHub Education. Otherwise, you will have up to 60 core hours and 15 GB free per month.

The devcontainer contains:

• The latest pre-release version of Quarto.
• Quarto VS Code Extension.
• Lua LSP VS Code Extension for Lua code intelligence.
• GitHub copilot VS Code Extension.
• R and Python
• knitr and jupyter

References

• Quarto: Lua API Reference
• Quarto: Lua Development
• Pandoc: Lua Filters
• Lua: Manual