Theia: Compare theia vs. code-server?
How do theia compare / differ to https://github.com/cdr/code-server?
pwFoo
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Theia is an extensible IDE Framework with cloud-first mindset not a patch to electron and VS Code source code to run it in a browser as code server. Theia does provide similar UX and compatible with VS Code extensions but relies on stable components and protocols like Monaco, LSP, DAP and vscode extension api. Besides it is vendor neutral and allow to build white labeled products like Gitpod or ARM Mbed Studio.
akosyakov
on 3 Jun 2019
Does Theia work better on iPadOS than code-server? If not, then they are effectively the same thing on iPadOS.
GalacticLion7
on 20 Jun 2020
A comparison to codespaces would also be useful (yes, I realise that's probably uncomfortable because github codespaces compete with gitpod, which appears to fund most of the theia dev?). It would be interesting to see an architecture diagram of theia showing which bits are re-used from vscode and which are theia-specific.
@akosyakov your answer provides a comparison at a technical level, but from a out-of-the-box user functionality point of view, is there much difference?
tstibbs
on 21 Jul 2020
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Theia is an extensible IDE Framework with cloud-first mindset not a patch to electron and VS Code source code to run it in a browser as code server. Theia does provide similar UX and compatible with VS Code extensions but relies on stable components and protocols like Monaco, LSP, DAP and vscode extension api. Besides it is vendor neutral and allow to build white labeled products like Gitpod or ARM Mbed Studio.