Why can't I write code inside my browser?

• Code-Server

  396 65,367 9.2 TypeScript

  VS Code in the browser

  

adding to the editors/IDE inside the browser:

https://github.com/cdr/code-server (headless vscode) https://github.com/pylonide/pylon (fork of c9v2 when it was still open source)

• paperclips

  1 2 2.7 JavaScript

  Hacking on the Paperclips game (by trogau)

2. https://github.com/trogau/paperclips/

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  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.

  

• captn3m0.github.com

  1 12 6.5 HTML

  Discontinued My Jekyll Blog.

I tried this as a Chrome extension a long time ago - github.com/captn3m0/sympathy

The idea was to make file-editing possible and simple in your browser. The extension let you edit file:/// URLs in your browser using the (now unavailable) NPAPI. The results were fun - especially for web development, where I could edit the CSS in one tab, and have it reflect in the second. Chrome added a "workspace" editor a while later, which was similar.

A blog post on why I really wanted to make it: https://github.com/captn3m0/captn3m0.github.com/blob/master/...

• commons-io

  2 984 9.8 Java

  Apache Commons IO

  

+ Will usually be actively maintained (for example, https://github.com/apache/commons-io has 70 contributors and 360k users).

• theia

  49 18,833 9.6 TypeScript

  Eclipse Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.

  

As easy as it would be to pile on the author here, to me this serves as a stark reminder of the how overwhelming a difficult coding, and setting up environments can seem to beginners.

I think this author is a the perfect target audience for Gitpod https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia. With it, you can login with Github, paste the URL of your project into the address bar, and boom! You've got a VSCode clone with NodeJS installed already.

• imcat

  3 311 0.0 C

  Show any image in a terminal window.

Do you have a specific gripe against X11? Again, it would be very much against the Unix philosophy to roll that highly complex functionality into the core SSH protocol. The problem would still be just as complex and challenging. Implementing a network-transparent GUI always is. You'd lose the separation of concerns, and you'd end up running two GUI systems rather than one.

If you want a very basic GUI over SSH without a full-blown GUI like with X11, you already have the option of using a TUI like Midnight Commander. You can preview images on the command-line, with a tool like imcat. [0]

[0] https://github.com/stolk/imcat

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