I've used it for the past month or so and honestly it's less config to start but its no different from vscode or fleet by jetbrains, especially now that fleet has become much faster and easier to use
This project is an alternative to codespacea, gitpod and other remote dev. environments. That's how the video should start it would be much clearer to everyone.
No, is a entire development environment on cloud with support for nix package manager, docker and so on, I can run 1K microservices on the IDX without install anything on my machine, is way superior than alternatives like the vscode online, the vscode-oss is the editor of choice for IDX probably because of the familiarity for most developers. If I just need a browser way I should install anything on my computer?
i think idx basicly vscode but optimized for browser well the target is for people that have bad devices or only using phone/tablet for coding (or you has important work without your code device, you can do that in other device)
@camelCaseDev Basically, you need an apple developer account and to use Expo EAS Build. It spits out something you can run directly on an iPhone. You can even use it to push directly to the app stores with some configuration. All this from Windows.
Been using it for a while before it was released to the public. And sometimes it sucks. Like my workspace stops working properly - i cant push to github, build fails until hours later. But I still use it cos my laptop sucks 😂
My guess is they are releasing this beta test to refine this tool intended for internal use, probably going to be discontinued without becoming a paid product or a year after release like Stadia. The niche is narrow and the tech still is too expensive so even inside the niche there wouldn’t be that many capable/willing to pay for it (because it will be expensive)
I don't know if this feature exists right now, if you could make the preview window full screen and detach it that would be cool, like for example if i am using two screens ide in one and preview window opened in 2nd monitor.
You're missing the point here. IDX's true power is using Nix to build cross deployment platform (will work regardless of hardware / CPU instruction set) application with locked dependencies not just at your project level like with node package.json, but at the whole OS level, where you can specify the revision / git commit of the node package itself, or even set up system services from a Nix config, which is not possible with any existing tools in the market except Nix, the tool it is based on (which is hard to use, and IDX fixes that). Ofc, it ain't going to replace VSCode (obviously), but Backend / Fullstack / Devops / Cloud Engineers are the intended audience, not front-end devs.
lol I actually dont like idx. The few minutes it takes to spin up is nothing. I just wrote the last project using it it was okay. The only thing that I did not like, was the nix package being wrong and it caused and error in the workspace the next time I came back. Other than that, it is the only browser based ide environement that allows me to compile with no issues
I don't think that there are any privacy problems in using project idx. Why? Because you're not hosting your full public website on it. It should just be your testing environment. It's a nice project from Google and let's see what the future will bring to us.
