Vscode.dev: Local Development with Cloud Tools

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  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
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  • Code-Server

    VS Code in the browser

  • There's code-server (https://github.com/coder/code-server) which you can install on your own machine and is based off VSCode. However, it doesn't have access to some of the Microsoft VSCode extensions (although there are generally equivalents).

  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

  • It's not a fork, it is the same codebase. VS Code on the desktop is an Electron app, and this is (basically) running the app as a PWA without the Electron host process or certain native extensions.

    As far as I'm aware there's no official guide for self-hosting it on your own server/bring-your-own-server. But allegedly it isn't difficult and there are GitHub Issues you can search for posted by others that have or are in the process of doing it.

    https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • devpod

    Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.

  • Also see https://devpod.sh/ which has had quite a lot of exposure on HN recently.

  • Monaco Editor

    A browser based code editor

  • Not entirely sure, but Gitlab's "web ide" fork:

        https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-web-ide-vscode-fork

  • jupyterlite

    Wasm powered Jupyter running in the browser 💡

  • nodebox-runtime

    Nodebox is a runtime for executing Node.js modules in the browser.

  • Oh I think I found the answer.

    > Nodebox is a runtime for executing Node.js modules in the browser.

    https://github.com/codesandbox/nodebox-runtime

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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