GitLab Web IDE

Post by orf » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 8:51 PM UTC

ezekg wrote: post #85

orf wrote: post #76

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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.

Post by ezekg » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 8:54 PM UTC

orf wrote: post #92

ezekg wrote: post #85

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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.

It's not... n00bish(?) to do a change in 5 seconds rather than clone the repo, open your IDE, run the tests, commit and push.

Post by qaq » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 8:54 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 bufferoverflow » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 9:01 PM UTC

voxadam wrote: post #68

dillonb wrote: post #7

But does it have Vim keybindings?

What we need is a web deliverable (i.e. not a "web technology based" Electron desktop app) Neovim frontend. Something like a Wasm & WebGL based UI layer connected via msgpack to the editor core that's running in a sandbox on GitLab's infrastructure. I'm truly sorry if the above drivel is either impossible or insane; as an embedded guy this is most definitely way outside my wheelhouse. I should get back to repairing m…

Post by swiley » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 9:03 PM UTC

ezekg wrote: post #83

freehunter wrote: post #53

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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.