VSCode Web

This project is aimed to build a web version of VSCode, this is not a fork, simply a web compilation of the VSCode project.

A similar compilation is used to generate VSCode Web test playground.

Use case

This project can be used to build a strong web file editor/reader. You need to implement your own FileSystemProvider through extension. Additional you can also use proposed API to implement a TextSearchProvider and FileSearchProvider.

Sample from official VSCode website consuming Github FileSystemProvider: Demo (requires Github access)

Sample project

This project is aimed to be used through npm package to avoid consumer to recompile whole solution.

Sample project can be found in this repository to illustate vscode-web usage. This sample is not fully functional as it misses a FileSystemProvider extension.

To run sample project

cd ./sample
yarn
yarn sample

Build from source

To build from source, you need same prerequisites as vscode : VSCode Prerequisites

Then simply run following commands

yarn
yarn build

Run demo

To run the demo you need to build from source, then run following commands

yarn prepare-demo
yarn demo