In this blog i will share you my experience of using Project IDX , its advantage and proper guide related to it . I am sure that this blog will make your task easier.
We have so many different development platforms that enable developers to build websites, applications, and systems that scale in the cloud using technologies such as Angular, Firebase, Flutter, Go, TensorFlow, Google Cloud, Android, and Chrome—also including other countless libraries, like lit-html.
So the vision with IDX is to make the multiplatform app development workflow faster and more frictionless, and that means no more having to manage what runtime you need to install, or emulators, or any other dependency for that matter. Just click a button and get started on development.
And on top of that, we want to empower your workflow with the latest from Google's AI capabilities. IDX is still in an early stage, but there is a lot to take a look at. So let's get started.
Project IDX’s Homepage
So this is the home page for Project IDX, and you might be thinking that this looks familiar. And that's because Project IDX is based on Code OSS.
To get started with a project, you'll see that there is a whole set of options for creating what we call a workspace. You can create a workspace by a platform, like through a web app or a Flutter app. You can also create a blank workspace for your own customizations.
You can import from a repo using GitHub, which is something I do all the time. And you can also see that we have some stuff coming soon with Python, Go, and AI, so stay tuned.
At the bottom, you can see any existing workspaces you might have or any workspaces that are shared with you.
Creating a Web Workspace
Let's start out by initializing a web workspace using Angular.
There are more template options available as well, such as React, Next.js, a blank HTML project (always a winner), as well as Vue and Svelte. You might notice this Nix checkbox. And don't worry, I'm going to get to that in just a second.
So let's create this project.
The Integrated Terminal
Project IDX boots up with a virtual machine, and this can take some time. But once it's up and running, you can start developing.
Now that everything is booted up, I want to take a look at the integrated terminal. Using a few different commands, we can pop the terminal up. I prefer using Control + Tilde, but you can use the command palette with Command + Shift + P and then open up the new terminal.
So let's maximize this for full real estate. I can run any commands that you're used to running on a Linux-based machine. For example, I can run ls or ls -l to check files on the system. I can also do a grep search for any files that I might want to find.
One of our biggest goals here is performance. We want this to feel just how it would on your local machine. If you're an IDX user, please give us your feedback here.
Oh, and because I know I'm going to get this question: Yes, you can use VIM.
Preview Panel
You can see that the web app is being rendered within the panel, but how does IDX know what to serve?
If you're using default templates in IDX, then you don't have to worry about this. But if you want to customize your setup, you can configure what gets served in the preview panel. We have documentation on how to set that up, so check out the link in the description.
And I also know that a lot of you are wondering if you can open up this preview panel into another tab for more space and for clear use of the DevTools. The answer is absolutely yes. When I click this button here, it asks me if I want to open up this URL in a new tab. And I'll say yes.
Any changes I make in the editor are reflected in this tab as well.
Installing Extensions
One thing I noticed with this project is that the code formatting is a little bit different than how I usually have it in my projects. So I want to set up this workspace with Prettier, an awesome library for formatting.
I can install Prettier with the command line using npm, but I want to install it as an extension. And since this, again, is based on Code OSS, you can install all sorts of extensions, like Prettier.
Once I have it installed, I can run it from the command palette. And now my code looks exactly how I like it.
See you in next blog with another useful tips . See you soon.
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