[P&S Initiative] VEDA Objective JH-2: Add ability to remember previously used custom images and repositories to the logged in environment selector

[jnywong]

Motivation

When a user logs into the hub, they are presented with (among other things) a way to select the environment they want to use. One of the options is to specify their own Dcker image (‘bring your own image’), and another is to specify a GitHub repository from which an image will be dynamically built (‘bring your own repo’). It would be very helpful if both these remember prior options the user has used so they can immediately go back to a prior environment they have used instead of having to type it in each time.

Description

As part of this objective, we’ll also be doing a conversion of the code-base from typed JavaScript to TypeScript. We expect this to take little time now because the code base is small, and enable us to move faster both for this objective and in the future.

Success Criteria

• Bring your own image features remember previously used options so users can quickly select them
• The code-base is converted into TypeScript
• Dynamic image building has been rolled out to all hubs

Personnel

• Oliver (Development Seed)
• @sunu
• @yuvipanda