Edge Functions Question: How about introducing the `code-server` on the local development?

[nyannyacha]

I've seen a lot of posts about how the deno extension in vscode doesn't work well with existing project structures, making development difficult.

I think the main reason behind this is that it often conflicts with existing TypeScript projects, and I think it would be better to integrate code-server into the container image and isolate it from the existing development environment.

I integrated the code-server into the Dockerfile, and I think it's pretty good with development.

What do you guys think?

Demo

2024-01-07.mov

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[laktek]

Can we make this change in supabase/cli repo? (I personally don't use VSCode, so don't have a strong opinion on it. But I guess if we open a PR in CLI, other uses who currently experience would chime in)

[nyannyacha]

Can you transfer this issue? (or should be resubmitted manually?)

[laktek]

Done. transferred to supabase/cli

[silentworks]

I would vote for a no on this one as I wouldn't want the extra image/container just to have VS Code again as part of the CLI. This wouldn't be good for CI/CD as they would end up download this by default unless you use the exclude flag.

[nyannyacha]

I would vote for a no on this one as I wouldn't want the extra image/container just to have VS Code again as part of the CLI. This wouldn't be good for CI/CD as they would end up download this by default unless you use the exclude flag.

I agree with you that code-server should not be added simply as an extra container or image to the cli.

The original idea was to introduce an extra build flag in the edge-runtime image to download and run the code-server binaries, so that they are only used for local development.

This way, there is no need to think about the extra overhead of introducing and maintaining an extra image into the cli codebase and only introduce just one flag to switch between the versions that include code-server binary or not.

[sweatybridge]

This wouldn't be good for CI/CD as they would end up download this by default unless you use the exclude flag.

We have improved cli to only download images that are actually used. For eg. the migra image will be downloaded on the first time db diff command is run, and not on supabase start.