How flexible is Theia about custom UI components

#1

Hello all,

just exploring the capabilities of Theia and how we could integrate into it.

To me, it looks like Theia only supports text editors, having a text document presentation. or a tree view, showing a tree structure obviously.
Is there any chance to have an editor/viewer that is composing its own ui components, based on a UI library like React or much better a UI framework like Antd?

[original thread by benjaminr-ps]

#2

See https://github.com/TypeFox/theia-xtext-sprotty-example for an example graphical view/editor
A Theia widget is a DOM element only, so you can use every web framework to impement it. Internally, Theia uses React.

#3

[benjaminr-ps]

Thanks for the fast reply. That sounds really promising. So we can integrate any UI framework to Theia. I only reviewed the TypeScript definition file of Theia Plugin API.