Standalone Installers for Browser Version

[amartyaa]

Hey!! I have a use case where I want to install Theia IDE browser version in a windows machine natively via powershell script based automation, I was wondering if we have any .exe type standalone installers on windows which installs browser version(Backend + Frontend).

If not, any idea how can we create standalone installers for this case, or how can we achieve this automation?

[msujew]

Hey @amartyaa,

can you please create a feature request over at the Theia IDE repo? This is the repo for the Theia framework development. Thank you.

[amartyaa]

Thanks @msujew , Creating a Feature Request in Theia IDE repo.

[JonasHelming]

@amartyaa We do provide a Docker container for this purpose: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-ide?tab=readme-ov-file#docker

[amartyaa]

Hey @JonasHelming, DockerContainers are good but are not native service, I am looking for something native to windows.

[NO-MAP]

You do not need a .exe application.
After compiling the Theia project, you will get a browser-app folder.
You can copy this folder to the Windows machine where you need to deploy it.
At the same time, you need to ensure that the Windows machine has a Node.js environment.
Then you can start the Theia application using a shell command, as shown below:

node browser-app/lib/backend/main.js  

You can also pass custom parameters to start it:

node browser-app/lib/backend/main.js --hostname=0.0.0.0 --port=9527 --plugins=xxxxx  

Alternatively, you can install a PM2 program to manage it.
This is the deployment method I discovered in the past two days, and I hope it helps you.