In this article, we provide an overview on how to extend the Eclipse Theia IDE with custom extensions. We will show how to create a Theia extension, how it is structured and how to develop it by adding your own features. Please note that there are two ways of extending the Eclipse Theia IDE, one being extensions, the other one being plugins. This article is...
Read MoreIn this article series we provide an overview of how to get started with Eclipse Che. In this first part, we will describe how to easily install it and launch your own instance of Eclipse Che. If you are interested and want to try out Eclipse Che and see it in action, keep on reading. In case you are wondering what Eclipse Che is, please...
Read MoreThis series of articles describes how to get started with the Eclipse Theia IDE. In this particular article, we provide an overview about the Git support of the Eclipse Theia IDE. Please see previous articles on how to launch Theia, or how to use the Theia IDE and for a quick introduction of Theia. The default Git support in the UI of Eclipse Theia is quite...
Read MoreYou want to build web-based, browser-based or cloud-based diagram editors for your graphical (modeling) language? You want to migrate an existing diagram editor to the web? Keep on reading! In this article, we will introduce the Graphical Language Server Protocol / Platform (GLSP), an Eclipse open source project for building web-based diagram editors.. If you are familiar with the language server protocol (LSP), you might have...
Read MoreThe Eclipse Theia IDE is an open source platform to build web- and cloud-based tools, as an alternative to VS Code. However, Theia is compatible to VS Code in terms of extensions. In this article, we describe how to install and use VS Code plugins in the Eclipse Theia IDE and Eclipse Che (which uses Theia as the default IDE). In case you are wondering what...
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