Description
It is possible to run CodeRoad on the web in a variety of ways.
Visual Studio Online (Preview)
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-online/
To get the tutorial to run correctly you first need to:
- delete the autogenerated README.md file to start with an empty workspace
- configure your git user.name & user.password so that git runs properly
Container
See notes on running VSCode inside of a container: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers
I've tried this locally using the VSCode remote extension. With Docker, you're able to configure the environmental setup. There are some downsides: VSCode ran about twice as slow, and the initial docker container startup took around a minute or so the first time (though fast on subsequent times).
CodeSandbox
It may be possible to create a trimmed down version of VSCode, like CodeSandbox.io. The creators of CodeSandBox have shown intent to make this possible.
Extensions Support
We now support VS Code Extensions! The cool thing about this integration is that everything runs in the > browser. Instead of spawning node processes, we spawn Web Workers with stubbed node modules like > fs, net and module. This means that there's less latency and there's no need for us to run servers for VS > Code. I'll do a better write-up on how this works after all the remaining releases.Initially we'll support a predefined list of extensions, we'll gradually open up the possibility for everyone to add and install their own extensions.