Web based IDE suggestion

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨knF@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Hello everyone, I’m looking for a web based IDE that can create isolated development environments as you could do in Koding or with VSCode with the “Remote” extension.

My use case is quite simple, I want to play around with different projects and languages without installing anything directly on my machine (docker containers FTW) to reduce conflicts between packages and garbage. The “web based” requirement is because I have a server with plenty of capacity to take care of this task and I’d like to keep as clean as possible my PC.

I’ve tried already code server but I cannot install the “Remote” extension to have it create containers on demand.

Any suggestion or help is more than welcome! :D

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ck_@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If all you want is to experiment without cluttering you local system, then the nix package manager is probably a better idea that self-hosting a web based IDE. It can be installed on any Linux (or Mac) and once installed works without extra privileges. As nix isolates all dependencies by design, it can be used to create pristine, project specific dev environments without impacting or relying on the rest of the system.

There are plenty of blog posts out there explaining the concepts and how to get started, eg. monospacedmonologues.com/…/throwaway-development-…

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- knF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Fantastic suggestion and thanks for the post, very clear! I played with NixOS some time ago but I totally missed this capability. Fits quite well my use case, thanks! And I found this extension that could make things easier: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=arrterian.nix-env-selector
  
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  - stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Another thing you can look into is apptainer/singularity. Basically portable container binaries. Executing the binary automatically runs a program/drops you into a shell inside the container with your $HOME mounted inside. Stuff like cuda also work as long as your host system has appropriate drivers.
    
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Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Something like this?

code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/vscode-server

hub.docker.com/r/ahmadnassri/vscode-server/#!

You can try it on github for free using the “.” Key of your hardware keyboard in any git to open it in a Microsoft hosted web instance of VS code. Works even on iPad.

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- knF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Thanks for the reply, actually I wasn’t aware of that functionality in Github, that’s fantastic! If only I could have something similar selfhosted… :)
  
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  - dartanjinn@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You can self host VS Code.
    
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cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You’re looking for Coder.

You can even set up your DE with the bits required to build your apps.

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- knF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Thanks a lot, great suggestion! I’ll play around with it and let you know :)
  
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  - poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This looks interesting indeed, but there is some unclarity on which features are behind the enterprise edition paywall. If you try it out please let us know what your impression is.
    
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Couldn’t you just use a container or a VM with ssh?

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poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
www.atheos.io

Might be worth a look.

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- knF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I had a look at it but it doesn’t seem to be able to create isolated dev environments on its own. Is it the case?
  
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astraeus@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m not sure if any of this information is useful, code-server doesn’t support installing the Remote-SSH extension. github.com/coder/code-server/discussions/4462

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- knF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Thanks, that was an option I had on table, just wanted to check if there was a “simpler” solution
  
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