Add VSCode Online as interactive application

[msquee]

"I feel there is ​a need for a generic full suite text editor."

I agree, we should explore these two JavaScript editors.

https://github.com/c9/core/
https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/

This issue was created based on feedback from the SGCI UX analysis survey

[ericfranz]

Now investigating https://theia-ide.org/

[Nosferican]

Related https://github.com/OSC/Open-OnDemand/issues/62
VS Code beta

[Nosferican]

Is there any rough timeline? For example, fall of this year?

For those looking for alternatives in the meanwhile,
VS Code extension: ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack is really good for having a similar experience!

I still haven't figure out how to have the clients start on the computing nodes by starting in the Slurm job.

[ericfranz]

Theia definitely November. But I'd like to see it by July.

I think sometime in next couple weeks some of the problems with this should be addressed though: https://github.com/OSC/bc_osc_codeserver

[msquee]

@Nosferican I have a working branch for code-server here: https://github.com/OSC/bc_osc_codeserver/tree/upgrade/codeserver

[Nosferican]

Might be helpful in terms of being able to install extensions. https://medium.com/@isaiah.taylor/use-vs-code-on-a-supercomputer-15e4cbbb1bc2

[Nosferican]

This is a cool application of VS Code as an app and connecting it to HPC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVUJ5Oohuhs&list=PLP8iPy9hna6Tl2UHTrm4jnIYrLkIcAROR

[Nosferican]

One alternative would be to integrate with the Code Spaces self-hosted solutions https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/codespaces/how-to/vscode#self-hosted as an option for an interactive app.

[msquee]

@Nosferican OSC/bc_osc_codeserver#2 was merged in about 2 weeks ago, Code Server is available for use now. Fair warning that Code Server is still in BETA!

[Nosferican]

Aye. Thanks! I am helping to test it in our cluster and so far it works really well.

[ericfranz]

We have a few improvements to help with deployment and cookie management added as issues to https://github.com/OSC/bc_osc_codeserver. We will also update the documentation to mention this app. Since the basic app is working and reported by another site outside of OSC, I'll mark this issue as complete. If you see any problems with the app, please post an issue on https://github.com/OSC/bc_osc_codeserver!