What is Eclipse Theia?
Eclipse Theia is an extensible open-source framework for building web-based integrated development environments (IDEs). It is implemented in TypeScript and provides reusable components for creating cloud & desktop IDEs.
Some key features of Eclipse Theia include:
- Syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, debuggers etc. for major languages
- Reusable components to build browser-based text editors
- Workspace management, preview modes, terminals, output views etc.
- Extension support to customize IDE behavior
- Plugin API to integrate other languages/debuggers
- Remote development capabilities to develop applications in containers
- Desktop IDE distribution through Electron
Eclipse Theia targets web applications and cloud infrastructure providers that want to provide their users with IDE capabilities to develop, test and manage applications. Its modular design allows building customized browser-based IDEs for specific platforms.