Since VS code is built with electron, it's hard to run VS code in browser.
I saw there's a project (https://github.com/spiffcode/ghedit) making thing for that. But it's out of date. Is there any other active projects doing the same thing?
Or is there any other web-based IDE including file explorer, tab management, and git version control?
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One option is Cloud9. It's open source:
I've written some instructions on how to use it as it can be a bit finicky.
One VSCode-based web editor to keep an eye on is Theia. There are docker images available to give it a whirl.
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If you don't want to host the editor yourself, you can try https://gitpod.io. It integrates well with GitHub, and you can add language support through custom Docker file.
GitPod uses Theia internally.
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Also checkout https://github.com/theia-ide/theia
You run it on a remote server, and it provides you essentially a cut-down, self-hosted version of vs-code, that is accessible in the browser:
You can give it a try extremely quickly with docker:
docker run -it --init -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd):/home/project:cached" theiaide/theia:next
The editor component of VSCode, called Monaco, runs in the browser.
Sourcegraph is also based on VSCode. It's not really an editor though, as files are read-only and it's used for viewing the contents of GitHub repositories.