Embracing Remote Systems in Local IDEs
0Presented by Mark Sujew of TypeFox at TheiaCon 2023.
Theia was always designed to be used as a web and desktop IDE. It's origin as a web IDE allowed to easily bridge the gap to remote systems to work on your code. However, this still confines you - as a user - to the infrastructure of the IDE provider.
A recent push in two directions has made Theia more flexible in this regard: Natively integrated remote capabilities via SSH and live collaboration features allow Theia users to make use any workspace they want. All while keeping the well-known look and feel of Theia's desktop and web apps.
In this presentation I will explain what these features are, how they can be used and how they work. We will cover this in depth from an internal framework perspective as well as the adopter perspective.