maybe make the browser application as Single Executable Applications (SEA) is more adapt to special use case

[icoco]

electron is great, but looks some time we only need the ide works in browser environment, consider distribution, maybe a option to build the browser application as SEA ?

[msujew]

Hey @icoco,

Since the server backend is much more than just a single node script (containing scripts for worker threads, webview stubs, and all of the frontend resources), packaging it inside of a SEA is not easily possible. The Theia IDE already distributes a docker image for the browser app, which should be used if you want some kind of distribution of the browser app.

[icoco]

thanks for answer... I use PKG before, but it does not support Node20+ anymore .

docker looks still trouble to deploy, will check it again, thanks !