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Explore supporting Electron 5.0 default renderer configuration #68302

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bpasero opened this issue Feb 9, 2019 · 1 comment
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Explore supporting Electron 5.0 default renderer configuration #68302

bpasero opened this issue Feb 9, 2019 · 1 comment
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bpasero commented Feb 9, 2019 •
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Electron 5.0 disables node integration (by default). Explore if we can run VSCode in such an environment where node.js cannot be used from the renderer.

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All changes happen on master. To run, simply append --nodeless to the startup, e.g.

scripts/code.sh --nodeless

This will open a version of the workbench that can run without node by pulling in src/vs/workbench/workbench.nodeless.main.ts. This is a list of dependencies that have no node.js or electron dependency. It closely mirrors src/vs/workbench/workbench.main.ts as much as possible.

Many services in src/vs/workbench/workbench.nodeless.main.ts are shimmed with a simple implementation until they are adopted (see src/vs/workbench/browser/nodeless.simpleservices.ts).

Example: make emmet fit to run without node/electron

We recently pushed changes to support emmet fully in an environment without node. The steps involved:

  • moving the code itself to a common or browser layer (more info on our layers)
  • this typically means to avoid using node.js or electron API by using a service instead that can be referenced from common or browser

Example: make the hash service fit to run without node/electron

We have a IHashService that can be used to compute SHA1 hashes of strings that is implemented by using the node.js API. To allow to use this service from an environment without node:

  • we created as src/vs/workbench/services/hash/common/hashService.ts that is fully implemented to run without node
  • we updated src/vs/workbench/workbench.nodeless.main.ts to use that implementation instead of the simple implementations from src/vs/workbench/browser/nodeless.simpleservices.ts

Note: if the new implementation of the service is good enough, we can drop the existing one to ensure we only have one service implementation.

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bpasero commented May 9, 2019

We will continue this investigation but current thinking is to adopt Electron 5 and 6 with nodeIntegration still being enabled as before.

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