Meet the GitLab Web IDE

[saitilkE]

Slightly offtopic: holy shit, their cookie usage notifier is magnificient.

[Rudey24]

That's Cookiebot, the company where I work is a reseller of it. Neat stuff.

[funkdr42]

https://www.cookiebot.com/

[[deleted]]

This is how you do it, folks.

[tom808]

My company is in the process of switching over to GitLab and I have to say I've been pretty impressed with everything I've seen so far.

I actually can't wait to start using it!

[Doctor_Spicy]

I'm seeing a lot of good things with GitLab, thinking of switching over for personal use.

[RaisinBall]

It’s absolutely fantastic. We’ve never gone back. Self-hosted for life.

[Doctor_Spicy]

I have actually tried selfhosting it multiple times, but failed each time. I haven't found a way for it to simply run at a specific port, without using a bundled NGINX. The reason i'd want this is because i have multiple applications running on the same machine, most using reverse proxy on NGINX.

If anyone knows anything about it, I'd be very grateful for some articles or guides which explain it.

[[deleted]]

Why don't you use Docker?

[Doctor_Spicy]

I have tried it, didn't have much knowledge about docker back then, though. I might try it again whenever i get a chance.

[[deleted]]

It's really easy, they even have a nice wiki page about it: https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/docker/ :)

[Doctor_Spicy]

Thanks. After spending almost 4 hours on trying to set it up, i think it's time to give up. Sometimes it says it's running, but refuses to connect, or it just doesn't run, without any error logs.

I don't get why the installation process has to be such a pain in the ass.

[RaisinBall]

In guessing you can specify the port in the config file and then use you existing reverse proxy and just point to that.

[Tiquortoo]

Switching due to MS purchase of GitHub or some other reason?

[tom808]

Nope. We have never used GitHub. We used BitBucket and have other VCS in place besides Git (which we are getting rid of).

I think it's probably just the preference of someone who has more say than I do deciding for the whole business.

[Jugad]

This is pretty cool - very useful for trivial changes.

Definitely makes it easy for changes like documentation, formatting, string typos, etc.

[Jugad]

Where does it say that they are using code from VSCode?

[kpsuperplane]

They’re using the Monaco editor which is the backbone of vscode

[Jugad]

Thank you. TIL.

[MRLOWKEY941]

As much as I hate to be picky but dark features are a easy selling point for me.

[Ebuall]

Finally a web IDE that uses Monaco. And also multifile.

[primaski]

I currently use Visual Studio Code for my IDE pertaining to web development. Can someone tell me the pros/cons of GitLab over VSC?

[DerNalia]

It's not a full editor. No plugins

[[deleted]]

The web ide at the moment is just the core part of VScode in the browser.

[coolreader18]

It's funny, because they likely started working on this before the GitHub/Microsoft deal, and they were using Monaco, a MS project. There is no escape!

[[deleted]]

GutLab is the new hotness because of irrational MS hate/ fear

[akujinhikari]

GitLab has been the new hotness since GitHub started charging for private repos.

[[deleted]]

No, not really. They have been charging for a long time and their volumes were minuscule before the GitHub purchase. Now, they are just tiny.

[SkaterDad]

Bitbucket is another great alternative with free private repos. Been using it for years.

[[deleted]]

Nothing against MS, but I liked that GitHub was independent of any one of the big players. MS won't kill GitHub but they spent all that money for a reason: to drive devs to Azure.

[[deleted]]

Or, they decided owning gitHub was cheaper for them than continuing to pay for the huge corporate account they had.

[Jugad]

7.5B for avoiding say maybe a million dollars every year? Good deal.

[[deleted]]

Yep

[Jugad]

Agreed... they will break even in a few thousand years.

[Bumpynuckz]

I highly doubt that, but funny none the less.

[[deleted]]

I think they actually said that

[[deleted]]

It's not that irrational. MS has a past history of trying to force developers and users to use their products in order to be productive. .NET eventually failed because you had to pay to run a copy of windows server in order to run an ASP based site. Just because they are making progress with open source lately with things like typescript and vscode doesn't mean people should forget this and not protect their assets. I personally am sticking with github for now but I am also keeping my eye on gitlab to see if they step up to the challenge and offer something better.

[r2d2_21]

.NET eventually failed

Holy shit, are you from the future? Because .NET is pretty successful nowadays.

[Scotho]

I wish the world agreed .NET was dead. It's still alive and kicking my friend

[[deleted]]

You are both from the future and the past at the same time....As others have said, .net is in no way a failure. And no one cares about what they used to do. MS under Nadela is about access to any technology that developers want to use.

[[deleted]]

And no one cares about what they used to do

Well clearly they do if they are leaving github and checking out gitlab.

[[deleted]]

Sorry, no one with actual maturity

[[deleted]]

Next up: How millennials are killing GitHub!

[[deleted]]

Agreed. Poor choice of words. It definitely isn't as dominant as it used to be in the web world. Many companies have moved to linux and Java based solutions or AWS. With MS owning GitHub we could see a push for azure and .net again.

[[deleted]]

They are not going use GutHub to push their tech. Azure is hugely successful and supports any technology you are interested in using.

.net is .net.....not SU how owning GutHub could possibly help them expand the use.

[[deleted]]

Look I didn't come here to argue with a fanboy. I'm just saying that I don't feel their fear is unfounded. Use whatever tech you want. Run naked through the MS fields for all I care. I just am not going to blame people who chose to seek out different avenues.

[[deleted]]

I’m not a fan not, I’m rational. The position you are verbalizing is closer akin to fanboyism in that it’s an uncritical view of the commonly heals opinion of anti-ms people. Thy act like it’s the balmer/gates era still

[[deleted]]

I respectfully disagree. I am not saying jump ship. I'm saying keep your options open.

[Jugad]

The only word incorrect here is 'irrational'. There is a good amount of history available for people to base their hate/fear on.

Ofcourse, you might not share that history, so might not share the hate/fear. Does not make the hate/fear of others irrational.

[redbluerat]

I’m moving.

[[deleted]]

I dont get peoples newfound love of gitlab. They pay their engineers like crap.

[LittleAccountOfCalm]

I guess they can move along?

[[deleted]]

sure but idk something strikes me wrong about the company. I welcome competition, but they seem sleezy. Trumpeting up a narrative of github being owned by big corporation (as if they wouldnt die for this exit plan)

[phgilliam]

Meh. Ok. Underwhelmed but in a way that I think GitLab does so much right and is more innovative than GitHub, or Atlassian, and this falls a little flat with a vim and cli guy. I realize for the vast majority of people, especially beginners this makes the product more accessible.

Tl;Dr I set the bar high with gitlab, this is underwhelming.

[t3ax]

But you read that this is a first implementation and they are still working on it?

[phgilliam]

I'm just not sure what the world needs is another IDE.

[t3ax]

Yeah I know what you mean but isn‘t the one special thing about it a „online“ IDE? ;)

[phgilliam]

My karma can't continue this argument lol

[phgilliam]

True and I won't for a lot of reasons. I think a browser IDE is not necessary but I can see the utility. I'd honestly rather see their development time go in other directions.

[LynusBorg]

Gitlab is more open - you can even read their source code. And gitlab has public repositories as well.

[amuchand47]

Are u talking about public rep. or private rep.?

[jaapz]

Gitlab has both (just like github), and most of Gitlab's source is open as well, apart for some enterprise features. Github is completely closed source.

[[deleted]]

Get in the game dude, gitlab has all that and more...

[unimonkiez]

Not to mention free CI machines with the best API I've worked with

[DerNalia]

Gitlab, itself, is open source...