Run Theia without a Backend
0Presented by Stefan Dirix of EclipseSource at TheiaCon 2023.
When providing Theia-based applications in a browser, you usually have to host the corresponding backends of potentially many users on some cloud infrastructure. This requires the tedious set-up of an infrastructure and may produce significant costs for hosting over time.
We are proud to announce the support of a brand new use case for Theia. Besides the already existing “browser” and “electron” targets, developers can now choose to build their Theia applications with the “browser-only” target.
The browser-only variant builds the Theia frontend without a backend, transforming Theia into a static web site. The built application can be hosted anywhere, from a CDN over Github pages to any other web server.
Join this talk to learn more about this exciting new architecture, which use cases it enables and how much effort and costs you might save in the future.