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Coder (Visual Studio Code in browser) goes open source

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Re: Coder (Visual Studio Code in browser) goes open source

#11

Does it work well on iPad with an external keyboard? I've been surprisingly frustrated with the lack of support for iPad by in-browser IDEs.

The last time I asked about that on here someone suggested codesandbox.io. It has an option in the settings to use VSCode as the editor.

Re: Coder (Visual Studio Code in browser) goes open source

#12

Requires a login to try. Should have non-login trial, or youtube video.

Github login also requires a phone number, which is definitely something I'm not willing to enter.

Is it true? I don't recall github ever asking for a phone number when logging in

Re: Coder (Visual Studio Code in browser) goes open source

#13
I used to work at a place where we all used the enterprise server version of RStudio, which also runs in a browser.

There was a lot of good thing about that setup. Nobody could walk home with code, and no code was lost on somebody laptop.

Execution happened on a server, much more powerful than any dev machine.

Re: Coder (Visual Studio Code in browser) goes open source

#15

Has anyone tried this and compared it to https://www.theia-ide.org/ ? First thing off the bat I notice is that Coder looks harder to deploy or try out, Theia was super easy, on the landing page they had a docker one liner: docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd):/home/project:cached" theiaide/theia:next

theia looks pretty cool, but didn't look like intellisense was built in to that docker image. Is there an easy set of language plugins, and a way to get them to pop into that docker image?

Re: Coder (Visual Studio Code in browser) goes open source

#16

I used to work at a place where we all used the enterprise server version of RStudio, which also runs in a browser. There was a lot of good thing about that setup. Nobody could walk home with code, and no code was lost on somebody laptop. Execution happened on a server, much more powerful than any dev machine.

How often do you think, somebody walk home with code, happened ?

Re: Coder (Visual Studio Code in browser) goes open source

#17

I used to work at a place where we all used the enterprise server version of RStudio, which also runs in a browser. There was a lot of good thing about that setup. Nobody could walk home with code, and no code was lost on somebody laptop. Execution happened on a server, much more powerful than any dev machine.

>no code was lost on somebody laptop.

Doesn't full disk encryption solve that as well as putting it in the cloud (and you'd need encryption anyway)

Re: Coder (Visual Studio Code in browser) goes open source

#18

Why does an open source browser code editor ask for my phone number to sign up?

This got me too. It looks like a neat project, but the phone number requirement seems a little off. There doesn't appear to be a real need for it and running through their privacy page isn't helpful.

Re: Coder (Visual Studio Code in browser) goes open source

#19

Requires a login to try. Should have non-login trial, or youtube video.

Github login also requires a phone number, which is definitely something I'm not willing to enter.

Whaaa? Is that a new thing? I've never needed to supply my phone# to GitHub, and there's no # associated with my profile. Also, I agree with you in being a little hesitant to give it out and is precisely why I didn't go further than the sign-up page for coder.com.

Re: Coder (Visual Studio Code in browser) goes open source

#20
It looks super easy to host your own server. The instructions consist of:

> 1) Download a binary (Linux and OSX supported. Windows coming soon)

> 2) Start the binary with the project directory as the first argument

> code-server

From: https://github.com/codercom/code-server

Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried it.

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