Easy IDE setup with Quarkus

[maxandersen]

Yesterday I was chatting with @phillip-kruger about some dev UI enhancements and somewhat as a joke mentioned I've since forever wondered if embedding code-server in code server would be feasible.

Well, it got me thinking and I made not just code-server happen but also a quarkus edit command.

code-server

Between meetings I made this work:

It uses lscr.io/linuxserver/code-server:latest which allow running code-server with environment variable config.

For now it does not retain state nor come with extensions like java and quarkus installed but all very possible to do.

I've opened #37245 to gather interest/awareness - give it a +1 if interesting to you.

quarkus edit

In jbang I have a jbang edit command that allows setting up vscodium instance locally.
Yesterday I published a jbang-cli maven dependency and I realized I could fairly easily make a quarkus edit command using jbang code for a POC of this targeted for Quarkus.

So try this in a Quarkus project (and you have quarkus cli installed):

quarkus plug add quarkus-edit@maxandersen
quarkus edit src/main/resources/application.properties

Now choose option 1 and you should get a locally installed and configured vscode (vscodium) install with various java extensions and Quarkus Tools all "Just Working"

Cool or a toy?

Leave a comment what you think - worth exploring? something you want to contribute to?

What would you like to use it for? something it should do?