Theia - Cloud & Desktop IDE

Theia is an extensible platform to develop full-fledged multi-language Cloud & Desktop IDE-like products with state-of-the-art web technologies.

• Scope
• Getting Started
• Documentation
• Contributing
• Feedback
• Roadmap
• License

Scope

• Establish a platform to build IDE-like products
• Provide the end-user with a full-fledged multi-language IDE (not just a smart editor)
• Support equally the paradigm of Cloud IDE and Desktop IDE
• Provide support for multiple languages via the language and debug server protocols
• Provide modern GUI with javascript UI libraries

Getting Started

Here you can find guides and examples for common scenarios:

• Develop a new Theia extension
• Develop a new Theia application for Cloud or Desktop with Theia CLI
• Run Theia IDE for Web Developers with Docker
• Package a desktop Theia application with Electron

Documentation

There are guides to get familiar with Theia architecture and internals:

• Architecture
  • Dependency Injection
  • Extensions
  • Services
  • Contributions
• Developing an extension
  • Frontend-backend communications
  • Events
  • Commands
  • Preferences

Contributing

Read below to learn how to take part in improving Theia:

• Fork the repository and run the examples from source
• Get familiar with the development workflow, Coding Guidelines, Code of Conduct and learn how to sign your work
• Find an issue to work on and submit a pull request
  • First time contributing to open source? Pick a good first issue to get you familiar with GitHub contributing process.
  • First time contributing to Theia? Pick a beginner friendly issue to get you familiar with codebase and our contributing process.
  • Want to become a Committer? Solve an issue showing that you understand Theia objectives and architecture. Here is a good list to start.
• Could not find an issue? Look for bugs, typos, and missing features.

Feedback

Read below how to engage with Theia community:

• Join the discussion on Gitter.
• Ask a question, request a new feature and file a bug with GitHub issues.
• Star the repository to show your support.
• Follow Theia on Twitter.

Roadmap

On December 6, 2017 we reached version 0.3.0. The team is now in the process of defining the scope for the next months. It will include features like

• Debugging
• Search
• More Advanced Git Integration
• many more

A more concrete milestone plan will be added soon.

The team is also working on the following Open-Source Products based on Theia:

• Yangster - A YANG IDE

License

Apache-2.0