# Build a Boilerplate - Build a Boilerplate

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/build-a-boilerplate-build-a-boilerplate/796568>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** relational-databases\
**Created:** [August 2, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/build-a-boilerplate-build-a-boilerplate/796568 "2026-08-02T16:46:38Z")\
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Did you follow these steps in the [Codespaces workspaces](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/relational-database-curriculum-in-codespaces/761449) link?

## **Starting an Environment**

1. Click the “Start the course” button on any Relational Database page
  - This should open a new window with a modal prompting for the configuration for the environment

2. Click the `Create codespace` button

## **Starting a Project in CodeRoad**

1. Once the Codespace environment is running, open the VSCode Command Palette
2. Type `CodeRoad: Start` and click enter
3. Once the CodeRoad webview is running, click the `Start New Tutorial` button
4. Click the `URL` tab
5. From the specific Relational Database project page you want to complete, click the `Copy Course URL` button
6. Paste the URL into the URL input in the CodeRoad webview
7. Click `Load`
8. Click `Start`

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