This article provides an overview on how to develop a Eclipse Theia plugin and thereby extend the Theia IDE with new and custom features. Please note that there are two ways of extending Eclipse Theia: plugins and extensions. This article focuses on plugins, please also see our related articles for a comparison of Theia plugins and extensions and on how to develop extensions for Theia. Probably...
Read MoreIn this article we´ll answer the most frequently asked questions about Eclipse Theia, the open source platform for building web- and cloud-based IDEs and Tools. This article provides an overview, quick answers and references to follow up reads. What is the Eclipse Theia? Eclipse Theia is an open source platform for building web- and cloud-based tools and IDEs. Possible use cases range from providing custom language support,...
Read MoreDo you want to build a web-based modeling tool? Do you know the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and want to use its benefits in the browser? Do you want to migrate an existing EMF-based tool to the cloud? Then keep on reading! This article introduces a new Eclipse project called EMF.cloud. As the name implies, it is about using the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and the...
Read MoreIn this article, we compare the Eclipse Theia IDE with VS Code. We focus on the scenario of using these technologies as a basis for custom extensions as well as for the implementation of a domain-specific tool. So if you wonder which of the two ecosystems/platforms you should build your custom tool chain on, keep on reading! There is quite some confusion going on when looking...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreThe Eclipse Theia IDE is an extensible platform to build web-based tools and IDEs. In this article, we focus on how to add new features to Theia by adding extensions and/or plugins. Please see this article for a comparison of Eclipse Theia extensions and Theia plugins and here for a quick introduction of Theia and here about frequently asked questions about Theia. In Eclipse Theia, there...
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