Wide

Have a try first, and then help us to make it happen!

Intro

A Web-based IDE for Teams using Golang.

Motivation

• Team IDE:
  • Safe and reliable: the project source code stored on the server in real time, the developer's machine crashes without losing any source code
  • Unified environment: server unified development environment configuration, the developer machine without any additional configuration
  • Out of the box: 5 minutes to setup a server then open browser to develop, debug
  • Version Control: each developer has its own source code repository, easy sync with the trunk
• Web-based IDE:
  • Developer needs a browser only
  • Cross-platform, even on mobile devices
  • Easy to extend
  • Easy to integrate with other systems
  • For the geeks
• A try for commercial-open source: versions customized for enterprises, close to their development work flows respectively
• Currently more popular Go IDE has some defects or regrets:
  • Text editor (vim/emacs/sublime/Atom, etc.): For the Go newbie is too complex
  • Plug-in (goclipse, etc.): the need for the original IDE support, not professional
  • LiteIDE: no modern user interface :p
  • No team development experience
• There are a few of GO IDEs, and no one developed by Go itself, this is a nice try

Features

• Code Highlight, Folding: Go/HTML/JavaScript/Markdown etc.
• Autocomplete: Go/HTML etc.
• Format: Go/HTML/JSON etc.
• Build & Run
• Multiplayer: a real team development experience
• Navigation, Jump to declaration, Find usages, File search etc.
• Shell: run command on the server
• Web development: Frontend devlopment (HTML/JS/CSS) all in one
• Go tool: go get/install/fmt etc.
• File Import & Export
• Themes
• Debug
• Git integration: git command on the web

Demos

• Overview
• Theme

Architecture

Build & Run

• A browser tab corresponds to a Wide session
• Execution output push via WebSocket

Flow:

1. Browser sends Build request
2. Server executes go build command via os/exec
   2.1. Generates a executable file
3. Browser sends Run request
4. Server executes the file via os/exec
   4.1. A running process
   4.2. Execution output push via WebSocket channel
5. Browser renders with callback function ws.onmessage

Code Assist

• Autocompletion
• Find Usages/Jump To Declaration/etc.

Flow:

1. Browser sends code assist request
2. Handler gets user workspace of the request with HTTP session
3. Server executes gocode/ide_stub
   3.1 Sets environment variables (e.g. ${GOPATH})
   3.2 gocode with lib-path parameter

Documents

• 用户指南
• 开发指南

Setup

Download Binary

We have provided OS-specific executable binary as follows:

• linux-amd64/386
• windows-amd64/386
• darwin-amd64/386

Download HERE!

Build Wide for yourself

1. Download source or by git clone
2. Get dependencies with
   • go get
   • go get github.com/88250/ide_stub
   • go get github.com/nsf/gocode
3. Compile wide with go build

Docker

1. Get image: sudo docker pull 88250/wide:latest
2. Run: sudo docker run -u wide -p {ip}:{port}:7070 88250/wide:latest ./wide -docker=true -channel=ws://{ip}:{port}

Known Issues

• Shell is not available on Windows

License

Copyright (c) 2014, B3log Team (http://b3log.org)

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Credits

• golang
• CodeMirror
• zTree
• LiteIDE
• gocode
• Gorilla
• GoBuild
• Docker

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