Monaco Editor

A browser based code editor (by microsoft)

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Monaco Editor reviews and mentions

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  • Quadratic Python roadmap: building a spreadsheet developers love
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Mar 2025
    Building a good code editor is hard. Our editor is based on Monaco, the code editor that powers VS Code. We took Monaco and started on a journey towards building the best possible editor experience in a spreadsheet.
  • Integrate VS Code editor in your project! Monaco Editor 🚀
    1 project | dev.to | 20 Jan 2025
    Monaco editor by Microsoft @monaco-editor/react Happy coding! 😃
  • So, you want to set up a Monaco editor with a language server
    6 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2024
    Let's start with the most simple Monaco setup. I will use vanilla TS with Vite and Bun as package manager, so I hope it will be simple to extrapolate into different frameworks. You can also find similar example written with React in the official repo.
  • Complicate your personal projects
    2 projects | dev.to | 3 Oct 2024
    On top of that, I learned about Monaco Editor (the same editor that powers Visual Studio Code) and decided to integrate it to provide real-time syntax highlighting for my DSL. I had to learn how to add a custom language to it, and it was incredibly satisfying when the editor correctly highlighted valid input and flagged errors. Each new piece of complexity taught me something new, things I would not have learned if I had taken the "easy" route.
  • An experiment in UI density created with Svelte
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jul 2024
    VS Code Editor which is based on Electron, is really fast, even with large codebase & many open tabs. Their monaco engine (https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/) uses custom, virtual code processor that is optimized for surgically updating underlying DOM. It also uses WebGL + canvas rendering to show minimap of the file.

    Similar approach (custom virtual processor) is leveraged by Google docs/sheets.

    Canvas rendering may be the last resort when nothing worked.

  • A structured note-taking app for personal use
    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2023
    Fyi, if you are ever looking for a fun project you might be able to implement this. The vscode editor source is available as a library https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/
  • GIGO and VS-code: the Battle With Microsoft
    4 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023
    VScode uses the monaco-editor to display all editor screens in vscode including the markdown editor. A simple solution is to use the in built markdown file editor and call it a day.
  • Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2023
    visual studio is open source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

    i remember using their monaco editor as well (https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor), a really powerful editor & the very same used by VS Code (i think you can even get at the AST for TypeScript, for example, in the browser if you poke around deep enough)

    crazy cool stuff, and most definitely OSS!!!

  • NPM workspace and vite - Read dependency build output (d.ts file)
    3 projects | /r/webdev | 30 Nov 2023
    So lets say the project consists of two packages Lib and App in which Lib is a library and App is the frontend app which depends on Lib. Now I want to display a monaco powered code editor in App which has has access to all types of Lib. This means that I have to somehow read the *.d.ts file of Lib as a string to set it as "extra lib" for monaco.
  • [Webview] Scrolling jumps in Monaco editor
    1 project | /r/JavaFX | 7 Oct 2023
    WebView webView = new WebView(); webView.getEngine().load("https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/");
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