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Google Launches Project IDX, A web-based IDE (idx.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What if your dev experience was entirely in the cloud?

These days, launching applications means navigating an endless sea of complexity. We felt this pain at Google, so we started Project IDX, an experimental new initiative aimed at bringing your entire full-stack, multiplatform app development workflow to the cloud.

Project IDX gets you into your dev workflow in no time, backed by the security and scalability of Google Cloud.

Project IDX lets you preview your full-stack, multiplatform apps as your users would see them, with upcoming support for built-in multi-browser web previews, Android emulators, and iOS simulators.

As a Vim fanatic, I can't say I'll ever feel comfortable working in a browser, but some parts of IDX seem interesting. I wonder what the implications are for proprietary code.

I do think it solves an interesting problem where you're working on your desktop and decide to move to your laptop and continue working on the same codebase, but don't want to commit early so you can pull down the changes to your laptop.

It reminds me vaguely of Shells.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm avoiding google as much as I can, so this definitely isn't for me. But, does anyone knows of any self-hosted similar solution? I'm already mostly working remotely on my desktop through Parsec, but having something like a FOSS web IDE running at home would be a little bit better solution for cases where the network speed/quality isn't good enough to work for the whole streamed desktop case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's versions of VSCode you can run as a web app, including support for the terminal. You just need to roll your own build/run stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That sounds cool, thanks! Apparently, you can do the same with JetBrains Rider, which would also be great. I have to check that out.