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copypaper 3 hours ago

This looks awesome!

>I needed it to be a pretty fully functional IDE. I needed [IDE feature]...

I'm just curious, why didn't you make this as a VS Code plugin to benefit from all the features of an IDE? I'd imagine you could do something similar to the Live Server plugin. That way you could support any browser and not worry about maintaining the IDE features.

jsunderland323 3 hours ago | parent [-]

We actually do have a VSCode plugin we built a couple of months ago. It's a sort of a gnarly install if you run our dev-server from a docker container (which we do), so we shelved it. We dog food everything before putting it out. There's some cleanup we need to do before we publish it but it's coming.

> I'm just curious, why didn't you make this as a VS Code plugin to benefit from all the features of an IDE?

What I was trying to articulate is that I want is to write code in my dev-panel. I don't want to switch panes to an IDE for frontend tweaking. Of course there are times that I do want to switch to my IDE, which is why we developed the VSCode extension that is coming.

> I'd imagine you could do something similar to the Live Server plugin. That way you could support any browser and not worry about maintaining the IDE features.

This may turn out to be the right approach in the end. I've just explored the one avenue that you see today but I could be totally wrong and you might be right that the embedded browser in the IDE approach is the way to go.

copypaper 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Regardless of which approach ends up being right, the tool itself is amazing. Best of luck with it!

jsunderland323 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Thank you so much! <3