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microsoft / monaco-editor

monaco-editor

A browser based code editor

46Distinct people
49Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
47KGitHub stars
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What it is

A browser based code editor

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:23:53 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year49 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-06-20 19:02:29 UTC to 2025-09-24 07:49:54 UTC.

0369122016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 1 submissions, 10 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 2 submissions, 9 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1129
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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The architecture largely if not entirely supports that. Extensions and language services in VS Code exchange a flavour of JSON-RPC 2 and can run over HTTP. Check out "Monaco" (https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor). Easy to drop into any project, and easy to back with OOTB or remote services. I use it in a few different projects for live config editing of custom JSON and XML schemas and excellent auto-complete capabilities.
In Visual Studio Code 1.17 released
VS Code uses the Monaco editor [1], which in turn uses Monarch [2] to provide syntax definitions. the Monarch github page [3] has a FAQ which also explains why they don't support TextMate grammars, citing exactly that Oniguruma regexes != Javascript regexes. VS Code offers pretty decent Monarch syntax definitions in the monaco-languages at [4]; you're probably better off just using those instead. [1] https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/index.html [2] https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/monarch.html [3] https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor [4] https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-languages/tree/master/sr...
In Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code
> be to re-implement the Electron API's that Code uses in HTML5 Javascript with local storage, such that VS Code could run entirely as a HTML5 web application. This does not look fancy. Microsoft uses VSCode for their online Editor in Azure and VSS: - https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Visual-Studio-Online-Monaco Or to say it differently, at least the Editor part is working directly inside the browser: - https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor (P.S.: I'm not related to Microsoft, I just tumbled upon while trying to work with App Services on Azure)
In Show HN: Visual Studio Code for ARM, submitted to core

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