Code

What is it for?

Editing files on your local machine.

If you're passingly familiar with Sublime Text or VSCode the keyboard bindings should feel quite familiar.

Key features:

• it's super light-weight
• it's 99% offline capable
  • (the 1% is any themes / modes not already loaded will not be available offline)
• has tabbed editing
• common find/Regex Find/goto line
• built around the 'ace editor'
  • supports over 100 coding languages
  • comment toggling
  • code folding
  • multi-cursor support
  • many colour themes
• integrated 'prettier'
  • One touch code reformatting for your HTML/CSS/JavaScript files
• dark mode

Please Note
Only works in desktop, chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Opera) - turns out Brave disables the File System API, Firefox and Safari have not (and may never) implement, and AFAIK no mobile browsers support it.

UPDATE: JAN 2022 apparently shortly after writing this Brave added a flag to enable file-system-access-api which can be turned on here brave://flags/#file-system-access-api

UPDATE: Desktop Safari has partial support for the File System Access API some time after version 15, the current implementation is not usable for this project.

The app works exclusively with local file editing, your files don't leave your computer, EVER. Remote filesystems should work -- so long as your system's file explorer can access it, Code can access it... hypothically -- I've used and tested it on Windows 10, Chrome OS and Ubuntu Linux.

What is it not for?

• Storing your documents online (see above).
• Serving extremely specific or niche needs that add excessive complexity, bloat or performance cost

Where can I try it?

For now a working copy of Code is hosted at https://code.jakbox.dev/

Of course you can alway clone the repo, it includes a node+express app to host the PWA and run/install it from localhost, you could be up and running minutes from now...

Getting started

Assuming you have a working terminal CLI with a working node.js install...

• Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/blakjakau/dev.jakbox.code.git

• Install the npm packages and nodemon

cd dev.jakbox.code

npm i

npm i -g nodemon

• Run the http app

cd http
npm start

• open a supported browser, see FAQ
• navigate to localhost:8083

I have other questions

Check the FAQ before asking them.

Licence

Licenced under "The 3-Clause BSD License".

Actual licence statement here.