Feature Request: Create a Gitpod landing page for a project

[mickmister]

Describe the behaviour you'd like

I'd like to be able to greet new developers to the project with a message, documentation, or instructions when they open the project in Gitpod. This would be similar to the "Get Started" page that vscode shows when you first open it. Maybe this is already possible with Gitpod?

I think it would be sufficient to render the project's CONTRIBUTING.md file if it exists.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Using the terminal as a way to show a greeting message, though I'd like to keep the terminal as clean as possible.

[gtsiolis]

@mickmister have you tried using gp open[1] or gp preview[2]?

[mickmister]

@gtsiolis When I tried this, it seems that the vscode UI was trying to open a file through HTTP, rather than previewing it from the virtual file system. Is this consistent with your understanding?

[mickmister]

My use case is to simulate clicking Open Preview in the context menu of a file in the file tree:

Maybe gp open or gp preview could support an optional flag to open a file in "preview mode"?

I've found a workaround for this, by hosting a markdown server https://github.com/markserv/markserv and serving the relevant markdown files for the Simple Browser to pick up.

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