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CyanCoding
Hey! So, I was using Repl.it the other day and the internet was terrible and it kept crashing the site and it would almost never save. So I think that you should have an offline editor. That way, you can edit your code easily without the website shouting errors at you about how you aren't connected.
Adding onto that, I think that it would be great if you had a Chrome App so that way you could go in, have it sync your programs and their code, and then it would let you edit it all there. And then when you want to leave, it just syncs your code again and updates your profile with the latest programs and code!
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fwinter102
As the code is, as I understand it, on a VM, not the local machine, how easy would it be for them to change that for offline modes?
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spotandjake100
We are over complicating things right now just let us access our repls from Vs code and then save them back by making an extension and then after that make a full system.
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ThomasZhou2
I think this is a great idea! I have poor wifi so this would help so much
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MatthewDoan1
They already have this: https://repl.it/talk/announcements/Introducing-Replit-offline/32107
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GaneshaSharma
@MatthewDoan1: haha
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ThomasZhou2
@MatthewDoan1: Lol
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Vandesm14
TLDR: The most beneficial option is to make an offline-sync feature for now, then make an desktop/chrome app later. The app would only function as a native GUI, still relying on repl.it's servers, instead of making a fully-fledged offline IDE like VSCode.
I suggest that repl.it should make an offline-sync feature. This feature, for now, could fix most issues. The Chrome App and desktop app idea would be a bit overboard for them right now, as they are mainly focusing on being a cloud IDE. If they consider a making a desktop or chrome app, it would be best used as a GUI which connects to their servers. This app would work offline, but it would need to sync up with repl on reconnect in order for your changes to go through.
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memmojs
That is a great idea! One thing somewhat similar that would be nice in the meantime would just be the ability to copy and paste our work. Instead of our code going away where we can't access it could we least copy and paste it until there is a full on offline implementation?
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awesome1238765
that would be great
Tim Chen
Merged in a post:
Repl.it Text Editor
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DeathWaltz
I would love if you guys could work on a downloadable text editor for Windows and Linux, that had the same IDE functions as the website. You could use the Atom editor and integrate your IDE functionality, as well as syntax, formatting, multiplayer (which I think may already exist on Atom), your learning/teaching system... I could go on. I just think that would be a great investment for you guys!
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eankeen
@MatthewBrash @johncokos @CyanCoding The current technology for offline capable web apps are WebWorkers. Yes, deprecation of Chrome Apps is true.
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CyanCoding
@eankeen: Yea, as of the time of my post (Jan, 11 2018) Chrome apps were still a thing. They are still now, for all of you Chrome OS users, but the general public can only install them via direct link and they aren't found in the Extension Store anymore.
MatthewBrash
Don't quote me on this but I think Google is deprecating Chrome Apps.
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