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Based on some back-and-forth in our Discord, we decided to try out a handful of Cloud IDEs. Ultimately, this PR (and some ground-clearing ones that preceded it) introduced support for Gitpod, Replit, Stackblitz, and Glitch.
In Part 4 of this series, I'll be talking about some of ways the scope of PR #1322 grew to include cloud-based IDEs! As alluded to in Part 1, our conversion from Webpack to Vite all started because of a discussion about opportunities for dependency updates in our project. Between this and us greatly reducing our build script footprint, we saw in this endeavor an additional opportunity for reduced friction in getting setup for Cloud IDE support. To us, Cloud IDE support presents an arguably easier path for prospective contributors, because it allows them to skip the hard parts of preparing their local environment for development.
In Part 4 of this series, I'll be talking about some of ways the scope of PR #1322 grew to include cloud-based IDEs! As alluded to in Part 1, our conversion from Webpack to Vite all started because of a discussion about opportunities for dependency updates in our project. Between this and us greatly reducing our build script footprint, we saw in this endeavor an additional opportunity for reduced friction in getting setup for Cloud IDE support. To us, Cloud IDE support presents an arguably easier path for prospective contributors, because it allows them to skip the hard parts of preparing their local environment for development.
Based on some back-and-forth in our Discord, we decided to try out a handful of Cloud IDEs. Ultimately, this PR (and some ground-clearing ones that preceded it) introduced support for Gitpod, Replit, Stackblitz, and Glitch.
Based on some back-and-forth in our Discord, we decided to try out a handful of Cloud IDEs. Ultimately, this PR (and some ground-clearing ones that preceded it) introduced support for Gitpod, Replit, Stackblitz, and Glitch.
Based on our experience at present, Stackblitz, Replit, Codesandbox, and Glitch are not reliable enough to test significant feature contributions to an application at the scale of Open Sauced. From what we see, the reliability challenges deal with the virtual filesystems in use - Open Sauced is a five year old project, and the codebase has grown. In fact, we feel that the performance benefits of Vite (especially its use of esbuild) made it possible for us to get the Cloud IDE support to the level that it is today.