I wonder if VSC could be used as a library to render editor in the browser.
GitLab Web IDE
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Re: GitLab Web IDE
#82Wow, 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…
Ok. One question that bothers me. Why repl.it and company permit internet access through their sandboxes? How is that not restricted? I can just annonymously run stuff and use them as a proxy. That is a big no-no in my book, but I must be missing something.
They're the only online repl I can use to test API integrations (and produce interactive integration examples), so I think of it as a "feature." ;)
Re: GitLab Web IDE
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
One day, I can toss out all my expensive hardware and do my job with a hi-res Chromebook and steady wifi.
Depending on your job, you might be able to. All of my webdev is done using remote servers, I go back and forth between Cloud9 and Vim+EC2. I don't even have any locally-installed dev tools, and with Vim I can use my phone or tablet in a pinch. That setup doesn't work for everything, but it's great for some use cases.
Using Vim from a phone or tablet sounds like a nightmare, tbh. I can barely text without typos.
Re: GitLab Web IDE
#84I have been dreaming about something like this since the first time I went from notepad/ftp/netscape
Re: GitLab Web IDE
#85What 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 made a lot of small changes to projects using the Github editor. If you've come across a project with a small change that you need it's great and easy to just press edit, change a few lines and commit. Then you let the CI server run the tests. Pretty frictionless. Editing multiple files is a pain though, you'd need one per commit, so this seems to solve that for me.
I stopped making changes through GitHub's editor after it started marking those commits as modified using the editor. I felt like a n00b and everybody could see it.
Re: GitLab Web IDE
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok. One question that bothers me. Why repl.it and company permit internet access through their sandboxes? How is that not restricted? I can just annonymously run stuff and use them as a proxy. That is a big no-no in my book, but I must be missing something.
They're the only online repl I can use to test API integrations (and produce interactive integration examples), so I think of it as a "feature." ;)
Ah cool. Do you have any examples online of how you use it?
Re: GitLab Web IDE
#87Gitlab is an awesome data center load tester, the only thing that's missing is a good github alternative. ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7978048
How long until the email client is also part of Gitlab?
Honestly, I bet they'll do a chat system next to try and replace Slack. One that comes with a @gitlabot which triggers CI/CD using DMs and hashtags.
Re: GitLab Web IDE
#88I'll admit I'm a very poor "look and feel" person. But am I the only one who thinks that the zooming images on this webpage are hostile to the user? (1) The zoom animation takes too long, I want to see the screenshot (2) After zooming, it's still difficult to read to my 33-year-old eyes. I want a fullscreen image. (3) After finishing squinting at the screenshot, I scroll down to read more text only to have that text…
I agree, it's slow, unnecessary, and totally annoying.
On a slightly similar vibe... if you're gonna take a picture of your laptop for the banner image on your web page, at least try cleaning the screen first. The dirty spots and greasy finger smudge in the top image make the whole page feel grimy, lol.
Re: GitLab Web IDE
#89What 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.
"The original idea came from staff developer Jacob Schatz, who observed how non-developers were having a hard time editing multiple files and getting those changes committed."
Exactly. You don't want documentation editors having to learn git and all cumbersome processes first. They may not even want to learn that. They want to edit and get their changes in.
Re: GitLab Web IDE
#90Wow, 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…
Yeah in theory it could be amazing for very irregular contributors - e.g. I see a small problem in a project that I think I can fix but I don't want to download the whole thing, set up the device environment, run a server and whatever.
Kind of like how you can already edit files and make a pull request in the GitHub web interface, but you can also run the program and check it works!