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The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE

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Re: The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE

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Post by greggyb »

beninsydney wrote: post #2

I'm excited about this, I would love the IDE to move to the browser and have been a fan of the idea since the Cloud9 days. If browsers had a way to delegate their reserved keyboard shortcuts I would use web IDEs full time.

In Qutebrowser, there is a passthrough mode (default keybinding is C-v) that does exactly what it sounds like -- it passes all keystrokes through to the current page for processing. The only keybinding in that mode is the binding to leave it (Shift-Escape by default).

Re: The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE

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Post by djbusby »

We've had some success with less technical types using their web-based editor (like fixing fonts, colours and markdown docs). Love it, it's very useful for them to contribute where they can. Cheers to this team.

Re: The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE

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Post by dimgl »

While this is cool, for Node.js there's something far better: https://stackblitz.com/. This is one of the more impressive IDE in browser experiences I've had. Comes complete with a terminal and a shim around `npm` that allows you to install JavaScript dependencies directly to the browser. Some truly cool stuff.

Re: The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE

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Post by philliphaydon »

dimgl wrote: post #5

While this is cool, for Node.js there's something far better: https://stackblitz.com/ . This is one of the more impressive IDE in browser experiences I've had. Comes complete with a terminal and a shim around `npm` that allows you to install JavaScript dependencies directly to the browser. Some truly cool stuff.

I miss c9 which was bought by Amazon. It had a VM running behind it with a terminal so I was able to do .net core development. A couple times I wasn't home and wanted to fix a bug in my project so I was able to login to c9, spin up my project in the browser and it committed back to github.

Re: The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE

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Post by SadTrombone »

philliphaydon wrote: post #6
dimgl wrote: post #5

While this is cool, for Node.js there's something far better: https://stackblitz.com/ . This is one of the more impressive IDE in browser experiences I've had. Comes complete with a terminal and a shim around `npm` that allows you to install JavaScript dependencies directly to the browser. Some truly cool stuff.

I miss c9 which was bought by Amazon. It had a VM running behind it with a terminal so I was able to do .net core development. A couple times I wasn't home and wanted to fix a bug in my project so I was able to login to c9, spin up my project in the browser and it committed back to github.

Does Cloud9 on Amazon no longer let you do that? I used it back in college but haven't really kept up with its current status.

Re: The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE

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Post by btgeekboy »

philliphaydon wrote: post #6
dimgl wrote: post #5

While this is cool, for Node.js there's something far better: https://stackblitz.com/ . This is one of the more impressive IDE in browser experiences I've had. Comes complete with a terminal and a shim around `npm` that allows you to install JavaScript dependencies directly to the browser. Some truly cool stuff.

I miss c9 which was bought by Amazon. It had a VM running behind it with a terminal so I was able to do .net core development. A couple times I wasn't home and wanted to fix a bug in my project so I was able to login to c9, spin up my project in the browser and it committed back to github.

It’s still around - https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/

Personally, I’m using Tailscale + VS Code with the Remote-SSH plug-in, accessing my home server.

Re: The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE

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Post by nsonha »

philliphaydon wrote: post #6
dimgl wrote: post #5

While this is cool, for Node.js there's something far better: https://stackblitz.com/ . This is one of the more impressive IDE in browser experiences I've had. Comes complete with a terminal and a shim around `npm` that allows you to install JavaScript dependencies directly to the browser. Some truly cool stuff.

I miss c9 which was bought by Amazon. It had a VM running behind it with a terminal so I was able to do .net core development. A couple times I wasn't home and wanted to fix a bug in my project so I was able to login to c9, spin up my project in the browser and it committed back to github.

Why do you have to miss it? Any of the contemporary online IDEs can do more than that now (I ran docker containers in github codespaces) and you can theme it like Ace if that's your thing.

Re: The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE

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Post by philliphaydon »

nsonha wrote: post #9
philliphaydon wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I miss c9 which was bought by Amazon. It had a VM running behind it with a terminal so I was able to do .net core development. A couple times I wasn't home and wanted to fix a bug in my project so I was able to login to c9, spin up my project in the browser and it committed back to github.

Why do you have to miss it? Any of the contemporary online IDEs can do more than that now (I ran docker containers in github codespaces) and you can theme it like Ace if that's your thing.

Miss it cos there's no free tier now. Speaking of codespaces I just got an invite last week. Still to check it out tho.
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