Add `Evidence: New Project` command and folder context menu options about evidence-vscode HOT 19 CLOSED

Create New Project in selected Folder with the default Evidence template project cloning below. I don't think this can be any simpler. We'll see if we should embed template project instead of cloning it from github in a separate ticket.

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New Evidence Project command display in the Command Palette...

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New Evidence Project command displayed for the selected folder in the built-in vscode File explorer context menu:

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Select new project folder dialog display listing all the folders in an open workspace:

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Evidence extension Output view with the start of Create new project logging to trace this process:

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Empty folder check, info message, and project folder dialog selection re-redisplay when the previously selected folder has files, or subfolders with files:

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Some final notes on this New Evidence Project feature implementation for testing:

• We don't prompt for the template project github url to clone it for a new Evidence project
• Users can use the initial Create Project from Template feature to create new projects from their own Evidence app templates on github
• We don't prompt to install dependencies for the Evidence project created in an open Workspace with other files because we don't support the "nested" Evidence projects and files in an open workspace yet. See our new Limitations section in docs for more info on this. We will update that section prior to v1.1.0 final features release.
• For the time being, users will need to open created Evidence project folder in a separate VS Code window session, i.e. new workspace for all the other Evidence extension features and enhancements we implemented in the published v1.0.0 and will ship in v1.1.0 to work.

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The last part is now scripted too in #59, but users need to click Open Folder and ok when folder list is displayed to open newly ceated Evidence project in a new VS Code window. We are using standard VS Code Open Folder command and UI there:

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Updated New Project Output view logging and display from #58:

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Changed selected folder is not empty notification to an error message in #61. This dialog is displayed when you use New Evidence Project command from the Command Palette...:

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Creating New Project in an empty VS Code workspace from start to finish:

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Issue with credentials

Repro

1. Open a new workspace
2. add a folder that will contain evidence eg reports
3. right click reports-> Create new Evidence project

Expected behaviour

No credentials are added in root folder

Actual

Credentials are added at the root folder (not inside reports folder).
These probably aren't harmful, but are confusing.
I don't think we need to add any credentials in this circumstance

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@archiewood what do you mean by credentials? we don't modify any file or folder credentials anywhere in this vscode extension.

Are you referring to the ./evidence folder created at the top level of the open workspace folder?

Looks like I need to copy the settings.json with demo duckdb config to the selected project folder inside an open workspace.

Btw, that was added as a workaround for the missing settings.json in your app template to resolve evidence-dev/evidence#804 in extension code and have a working app template we can use for new project scaffolding.

See: #39

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Are you referring to the ./evidence folder created at the top level of the open workspace folder?

Yes

In this case it is not used, as it should be inside the child directory

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See most recent changes in #60 to address that. I will remove my settings.json copy from clone repo code.

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Tagging #65 to track it for v1.1.0 release

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@archiewood resolved your issue in the commit above. Also, please try creating new project from the built-in template. It's instant:

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Yep works instantly for me as well. 🔥

Any reason we do not use this for the core "Create Evidence Project from template" command?

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Did not get to it 🙂 See #63

Plus I was not sure how well it would work on the Mac and needed you to test it.

We can wrap it up in #63 today.

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