Not just the dialogue, actually using it

yeah i know but it works for me

nevermind

websocket fails

it used to work before though

looks like a code-server issue because my noVNC websocket works properly

nice

Went to show my coworker coder. AWS us-east-2, where I host Coder, is down.

😭😭

Coder 8.1 lookin kinda fresh tho

I am currently asking my self if the tailscale networking is going to be added this month since it’s on the roadmap 🙂 But since the month is nearly over I guess not 😅

Hi all, I'm just doing some research. Does anybody have experience building either a real-time collaborative browser editor, or a service for simple I/O quizzes with coder?

it could be possible if both users are using the same coder account. But I do not know how coder can keep track of who is editing what part of the file.

BTW coder is designed to offload your workspace from your local/client machine to cloud/on-premises-servers and most teams use a version management like

git

to collaborate while working on their own copies of the source code.

not really, but both people could have a separate workspace and use VS live share

Thanks for the responses! I work at an educational company so I'm trying to put together teaching tools. I'll do some more research thanks!

My team and I are heavy into vscode and devcontainers. We build and package our python, ansible, node, apt, an other requirements into tagged/versioned container images we use with VS Code

1.) Can you bring your own images into coder 2.) Do you need to interact with your devspace via the browser, or can you also use the remote-ssh plugin?

1) yes 2) you can interact with web apps (e.g code-server) directly from your browser after defining them and you also have access to ssh

maybe some custom tooling based around monaco would be better? any example of what you would want to do?

Yeah I actually started building a custom solution using codemirror and node.js, but with my limited web development skills it seemed like it was going to take a long time to get the quality I needed. I might go back to that if I can't find anything else that makes the development easier. What we really need is a input/output coding quiz system like leetcode, and then on top of that having a collaborative sandbox coding environment for tutors and students to work together on would be great. I think the biggest challenge might be supporting multiple coding languages.

for the sandbox env, use monaco: https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor

https://snakeb.in has all languages selectable if you want to play around with it

hmm, what are you used to? (languages) this is a case where I'd recommend trying out Flutter

I haven't used web builds a lot, they are performant enough with what you want, just try to not paint 500 transparent widgets moving across the screen and you'll be good

flutter solved all the issues I had with making UI apps

the set of widgets I'd recommend is https://github.com/bdlukaa/fluent_ui because they're just really good

Most of my work has been in JavaScript and Lua with a smattering of other languages. I also have some familiarity with Python. I'll check out Flutter thanks! As far as supporting multiple languages goes I meant more on the back end for actually compiling the code. I imagine it's pretty easy to set up formatting and linting for most languages in monaco. Thanks for the the help/resources!

I guess I am confused for coder vs code-server by coder. Is coder for spinning up and managing development instances per user and code-server for single users?