Epic: Interact with VS Code Browser during workspace load

[svenefftinge]

In our Q1 Hackathon, Anton and Jean-Pierre found out that we can serve the file-system from the content-store without starting the actual container. GitHub is doing a similar technic with github.dev, but use a filesystem that directly connects to GitHub. This isn't too cool in our case, because we want people to look at the state of a workspace (i.e. a prebuilt checkout and state of stopped workspace). Therefore using the content store instead of GitHub as the filesystem provider is much better 🎉 .

Ultimately, we could build a filesystem that first accesses from our content store (read-only), and when the container started delegates to the real filesystem.

Would be cool if this could work from local VS Code as well.

[atduarte]

Should we rename this epic to be more focused on the user outcome? E.g. "Epic: Instant VS code edit mode"

[jeanp413]

Maybe related to the new Continue Edit Session feature of vscode where added/modified/deleted files are stored in the setttings sync server

[loujaybee]

@atduarte / @jeanp413 - Updated, let me know if that makes sense to you. Having a feature name as you suggest @jeanp413 sounds good, but we can decide on that closer to the time! 🙏

[Siddhant-K-code]

GitHub is doing a similar technic with github.dev

@svenefftinge you can take a look on some OG versions, GitHub1s :)

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