[HN Gopher] How OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE
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       How OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE
        
       Author : thunderbong
       Score  : 62 points
       Date   : 2021-09-28 18:37 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | ghuntley wrote:
       | Geoff here from Gitpod. Happy to answer any questions you may
       | have. Come join us in discord at https://www.gitpod.io/chat
       | 
       | If you head down the path of integrating OpenVSCode-Server
       | (released under MIT) into your product then I'd love to catch up
       | for a virtual coffee to nerd out about developer tech in general!
       | https://www.ghuntley.com/meet
        
       | lioeters wrote:
       | Here's the GitHub repo: https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-
       | server
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related:
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       |  _VS Code in the Browser for Everyone_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682477 - Sept 2021 (16
       | comments)
        
       | smivan wrote:
       | How is this different from https://github.com/cdr/code-server ?
        
         | minimaxir wrote:
         | Per the release blog post
         | (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/openvscode-server-launch), the goal
         | of OpenVSCode Server is to make as few changes to VS Code as
         | possible to run it on the server, while code-server makes more
         | opinionated changes:
         | 
         | > Unlike other attempts, this project is based on a minimal set
         | of changes and uses the same architecture that powers both
         | Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces at scale.
        
           | tomvault wrote:
           | Johannes from Gitpod here. I've answered this in
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682477 (copied below)
           | 
           | Essentially, we run nightly builds at OpenVSCode Server
           | making it as upstream to VS Code as possible. In contrast to
           | other forks the whole scope of the project is to add a
           | minimal set of changes (specifics about what we added
           | https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-
           | server/blob/main/doc...)
           | 
           | The architecture we use powers both Gitpod and GitHub
           | Codespaces. Several of the devs and organisations that have
           | asked for our implementation & now have adopted OpenVSCode
           | Server referenced the following issue at Code-Server
           | (https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/3835).
        
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