GitLab Web IDE

Post by sytse » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 4:54 PM UTC

sytse wrote: post #194

pknopf wrote: post #144

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...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.

Post by colonelpopcorn » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 5:05 PM UTC

ehsankia wrote: post #74

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…

Honestly I generally don't want to do my entire development on a Web IDE, but I do think it's very useful for a repo hosting site to have editing tools, as I often find myself wanting to fix something quick away from my setup. Web IDEs in general are a great concept though, mostly because developers generally love having their editor customized the way they like it, and from there, having it in the cloud accessible f…

Post by ivan_burazin » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 5:37 PM UTC

bartread wrote: post #125

ehsankia wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly I generally don't want to do my entire development on a Web IDE, but I do think it's very useful for a repo hosting site to have editing tools, as I often find myself wanting to fix something quick away from my setup. Web IDEs in general are a great concept though, mostly because developers generally love having their editor customized the way they like it, and from there, having it in the cloud accessible f…

I've heard this a lot since around 2012/13 when I first became aware of C9, and even gave it a go. Granted it was and is impressive as a technical achievement, but I really don't see the use case at all, other than as something to use as a quick fix embedded by a repo host. My laptop is a tool I use every single day and have with me almost all of the time. I do not need internet connectivity to remain productive, whi…

Post by ivan_burazin » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 5:51 PM UTC

shayac2 wrote: post #80

qop wrote: post #34

I'd love to see more symbiosis between editors and deployment tools. I could write my code and tests in the browser editor, and just have a dashboard with everything I need to know. Then when I'm at home I can use my editor and still hack the old fashioned way. I wish Microsoft has bought gitlab instead of github. They could have this new editor tie in with azure or something cool like that. Like websharper, but for…

Gitlab is using Monaco for this. An open sourced online editor brought to you by none other than Microsoft. ( https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor ) I couldn't dig it up now but I recall seeing that Microsoft started this project as an online code editor for Azure, later using it in VSCode. So it would not be surprising if they bring this to github some time in the future.

Post by exikyut » Sun, Jun 17, 2018, 12:20 AM UTC

dominotw wrote: post #32

I think they are spreading themselves too thin working on way too many features. Feature envy with github is not a good way to define your roadmap. They should drop everything and focus the most important feature: speed.