MSmsoad·Dec 29, 2016
VSCode has a browser version as well[1]. It's just the editor. Similar to CodeMirror.
[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 2 | 9 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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11 sourcesWish they would've done this with VS Code instead. The editor is vastly more performant and already works in the browser: https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor
In Atom-in-orbit: Putting Atom in the browserHow do VSCode features get ported to the Monaco Code Editor[1]?
I was interested in using it but noticed the last commit for Monaco was in October.
[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor
In Visual Studio Code 1.8The major gotchas is building the indexing engine. Once you have that in place, getting the commit information takes milliseconds. The only time consuming thing is extracting the from and to blobs from the repo. However, that is a one time hit, since you can cache the blobs.
For the diff, this is done in realtime with https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor
Also my product isn't really dependent on GitLab or GitHub. It works in standalone mode as well.
In Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code reviewVSCode was not supposed to be a "website". VSCode is based on Monaco, the editor for Visual Studio Online.
https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor
In Visual Studio Code 1.7.1Have a look at: https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor . It's what powers visual studio code and has all of those things
In Nitrous Service Shutdown – November 14thMonaco Editor: VS Code inbuilt editor library
1 points · Open discussion> But in reality they are not actually contributing anything very useful to the community
Have you looked at https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor
They have examples of what it can do at
https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/
It literally took me a couple of days to integrate their diff viewer into my product. If you go to
http://bitbucket-server-demo.gitsense.com/plugins/servlet/gi...
and click on the last tab (077be8bd -> 966c0823) and click on any of the files in the tab, you can see the diff editor in action. I don't know how much money was spent in developing the editor, but it's FREE for use by the community.
In Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHubThanks! Created https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor/issues/6
In The Monaco Code EditorFrom the FAQ. https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor#faq:
"Why all these web workers and why should I care?"
"A: Language services create web workers to compute heavy stuff outside the UI thread. They cost hardly anything in terms of resource overhead and you shouldn't worry too much about them, as long as you get them to work (see above the cross-domain case)."
Maybe that's part of the reason?
In The Monaco Code Editor