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Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by int0x80 »

amasad wrote: post #109
int0x80 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely. But is unexpected for me at least. But thinking of it, maybe you can log everything and if something bad happens you can blame the origin IP who ever that is. You can also ratelimit the outbound conections to avoid abuses etc. Is not like an open wifi where the client doesnt leave any trace at all. But in the shell account days IIRC you had to register with your name/email etc to use the service, that pro…

It took us a while before opening up. We only did after building tools to handle abuse, and after hiring someone to help us monitor.

Thanks for the info. And great product you have!

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Post by cornholio »

freehunter wrote: post #51
zachlatta wrote: post #18

Wow, very cool. Lots of new players in this space: https://repl.it , https://glitch.me , and now GitLab (and I'd be surprised if GitHub doesn't follow in tow). Cloud9's acquisition really left a big hole in the market. AFAIK there's still nothing out there that gives you a decent code editor (edit multiple files, have multiple tabs open, etc) that also gives you access to a Linux shell and ability to expose ports lik…

You speak about Cloud9 as if it's not available anymore, and that may not have been your intention, but I'd like to make it clear: Cloud9 still exists, and you can still use it. It's just accessed through the AWS portal. If anything, it's even more of a value proposition today due to EC2 auto-shutdown saving money when you're not using it, and even more useful since it's running on your own VPS you can do whatever yo…

I think it's a justifiable reaction, similar to the one after Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub. When an 800 pounds gorilla pays a bunch of cash to acquire a successful independent product, they do so either to quench a potential rival or to embrace and extend into that field and leverage their traditional offering. It makes sense from a business perspective, and they are the only ones capable of paying that much cash precisely because they can use the leverage.

For example, I myself wouldn't touch any service from Amazon with a ten foot pole. I acknowledge their role in starting the cloud revolution, but every business move of that company down to the design of the last web button is to set itself up as a monopoly in the fields it enters. They are the Apple of everything.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by sytse »

tootie wrote: post #44
ssijak wrote: post #17

What is the use for this? I mean how many people actually use such tools for actual day to day dev? Maybe for some quick edit if you don`t have laptop/computer at hand, but otherwise I see no real advantage of this.

I've actually been using it for the past month or two and it's been pretty solid. My particular use case is that I'm using GitLab pages and can use the Web IDE as a poor man's CMS tool. Edit/preview the markdown and upload images, then commit and have the CI pipeline pick it up and deploy. I can see myself editing config files, READMEs or possibly markup. Real coding would likely end up frustrating as hell. Ironicall…

We plan to add automatic https ssl certs for custom domains in the months ahead.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by sytse »

pknopf wrote: post #144
dimitrieh wrote: post #139

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Great to hear this! Please leave any feedback in our issue tracker mentioned in the article!

...but, there is one issue preventing my company from fully adopting it. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/5981 Once this is completed/implemented, our entire company will be migrating our old school document system to GitLab, using static pages, merge request approvals and this Web IDE. If push comes to shove, I'll have to fork and do it myself ;)

Please continue it. My cofounder and our CTO Dmitriy left an implementation suggestion in the issue.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by mch82 »

jakecodes wrote: post #128
ssijak wrote: post #17

What is the use for this? I mean how many people actually use such tools for actual day to day dev? Maybe for some quick edit if you don`t have laptop/computer at hand, but otherwise I see no real advantage of this.

Hey there. I'm the developer who made the POC. My original idea came after watching non-technical people try to make changes to the readme. They would have to ask for a lot of help to get the terminal open or use a GUI. When really all they wanted to do was make a quick change. The idea is that there's a lot of different users using git and I want to make it accessible for everyone.

Does anyone test the GitLab Web IDE on an iPad?

I was able to use Web IDE to edit a couple files including a `.gitlab-ci.yml` and kick off a continuous integration job from my iPad 6th Gen. I hit a snag with the Merge Request, but the commit worked okay. For now it would be a little cumbersome to rely on as a primary development workflow, but it's fun as a proof of concept.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by mch82 »

sbose78 wrote: post #188

Good job! This looks like a great code/text editor than an IDE at the moment. You would need some sort of code navigation, debug and run capabilities to call it an IDE :) Hope to see more soon? Redhat's OpenShift.io Eclipse Che integration would be a good example of a cloud IDE where you can could code,build and debug off a web-browser backed by a container-based workspace running on Kubernetes.

If Web IDE follows in the footsteps of other GitLab features, then it'll catch up soon!

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by erikb »

snurk wrote: post #187

I wish GitLab would take whatever resources this has and put them all on site reliability. They have a ton of open positions listed, but none are for Site Reliability Engineer. Frequent slow requests and 5xx errors keep me from giving GitLab a real try.

You can't have a gazillion features and be stable. I think it's quite clear which direction Gitlab is going.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by erikb »

ssijak wrote: post #17

What is the use for this? I mean how many people actually use such tools for actual day to day dev? Maybe for some quick edit if you don`t have laptop/computer at hand, but otherwise I see no real advantage of this.

Making a great IDE is also hard. It's unlikely that you can get a professional level if it's not a main focus.
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