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Getting started
Intro
The main feature of the workspace is IDE, a browser-based VS-Code version. Often IDE alone is not enough for convenient software development. In addition, workspace includes full-screen terminal, file manager, and task scheduler. This workspace is based on the Ubuntu 20 docker image, with typical terminal applications, such as Git installed.
Quicklaunch
From the quicklaunch page you can open workspace tools, such as code editor or terminal
Code Editor
Code editor of this workspace is Eclipse Theia - an open-source version of popular Visual Studio Code IDE. despite Eclipse Theia is a browser-based code editor, it is fast, responsive, and full-featured. It features code highlighting, autocompletion, rendering of notebooks has a tree-based file browser, and a great number of pre-installed color themes.
You can install any extension from open-vsx.org that has hundreeds of extensions for VS Code compatible editors. The IDE is already configured to make code highlighting for a great number of programming languages and file types. It also has many popular extensions installed
Terminal
Workspace has full-size browser-base terminal
Install applications
Use workspace workspace terminal to install new applications.
Install with sudo apt install. The default abc user is allowed to install packages.
For example, in order to install Emacs text editor open workspace terminal, and execute
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install emacs
Python
Python and Pip are installed. To use python console, open workspace terminal and execute
python3
install python package with pip, for
pip install pandas
If you are planning to work with python, we recommend to install IPython, that provides a rich toolkit to help you make the most of using Python interactively. Install and start ipython
pip install ipython
ipython
Node.js
We recommend to use nodeenv to create different node environments.
For example, open workspace terminal, create folder npmgui, and activate environment with node v. 12.18.3 and npm v.6.0.0
cd /home
mkdir npmgui; cd npmgui
nodeenv --node=12.18.3 --npm=6.0.0 env
Let's install package and start node application
. env/bin/activate && npm i -g npm-gui
npm-gui 0.0.0.0:8030
Open your browser on http://localhost:8030/
NOTE: If you close terminal, the application will stop. See how to start applications that reamin live after closing a workspace terminal
Run applications and services inside the workspace
If you want application to keep running after workspace terminal is closed start it with "&!" at the end.
For example, in the last section we started npm-gui tool with command npm-gui 0.0.0.0:8030. If you close the workspace terminal,
this application witll stop running. To keep it running after terminal is closed, execute
npm-gui 0.0.0.0:8030 &!
Now, if you disconnect from the workspace and close terminal, the application will continue running in the workspace, untill workspace is stopped.
Scheduler
Cronicle allows scheduling scripts, jobs and tasks and it has nice UI
