Base for designing a Desktop IDE

[JonasHelming]

Posted by: Shchepukhin Denis on 10/3/2023, 5:28:35 PM

Hello!

I’m going to develop custom desktop IDE based on Eclipse Theia.

What should I use for this: Eclipse Theia from origin github repo or Theia Blueprint?
What is the main purpose of Theia Blueprint? Is it designed specially for desktop package build?

Sincerely,
Shchepukhin Denis

[JonasHelming]

Posted by: Mark Sujew on 10/3/2023, 10:36:46 PM

Hey @Pe3aTeJlb,

What is the main purpose of Theia Blueprint? Is it designed specially for desktop package build?

Theia Blueprint is exactly that - a blueprint to show developers how to build a Theia application and package it for Desktop (and browser). It can be downloaded from our website to play around with it, but it is mainly a piece of documentation to show how to build something with Theia.

Eclipse Theia from origin github repo or Theia Blueprint?

Theia is designed to be consumed in a node.js based project via the packages available from npm. The best way to start building a Theia app is to use the yeoman generator that we provide. See also our documentation

[JonasHelming]

Posted by: Shchepukhin Denis on 10/4/2023, 8:22:53 AM

Thank you very much!
Everything really became clear now.