Hello all,
I’m working in order to reuse the VSIX plugins defined for VSC (and consumed by the browser version of Theia) with Electron.
After a quick look into the package.json file (in the Electron folder) seems that for some reasons plugins aren’t working fine with Electron - and they are actually disabled (here the link: https://github.com/theia-ide/theia/blob/master/examples/electron/package.json).
I’d like to understand which is the issue/limitation and maybe address some activities to resolve it (I wasn’t able to found the related issue on GH - but I can create one if necessary).
Thanks in advance and have a nice day.
[original thread by Andrea Zaccaro]
@andzac I’ve never had a look myself how plugins working in Electron. Could you try to enable and see? or at least file an issue, we need to do. Maybe @florentbenoit can provide more info on state of Theia plugins support in Electron.
[Andrea Zaccaro]
Good morning, I applied to followed steps:
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grabbed latest version of Theia (master repository)
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yarn + build electron script and run Theia with Electron without plugin capability enabled (cmd:“yarn run theia”)-- it works fine
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modified the package.json into the example/electron folder
a. enabled “@theia/plugin-ext” : “^0.4.0” and “@theia/plugin-ext-vscode”: “^0.4.0”
b. changed the version of @theia/typehierarchy to “0.5.0-next.8ff594a1” – in the package.json was defined as 0.4.0 but I got an issue when I tried to install all the dependencies,
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run the npm install inside the browser/electron folder to retreive the updated dependencies
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run the electron rebuild script
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run Theia with cmd “yarn run theia”
After this point Theia IDE with Electron is not working anymore. (see the snapshot below)
I made the test using a CentOS machine.
Let me know if I missed smth
can you do a small test for me? can you try by simply not adding the @theia/typehiearchy in your package.json, I’m afraid if it pulls some incompatible versions
