03/24/21
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Recently I discovered gitpod and its been great!
You get access to a super environment for free.
Ever thought about contributing to a cool project, but building it requires waiting a couple of hours? gitpod might be what you're looking for.
Its as simple as adding gitpod.io/# infront of the repository url, and you immediately get access to a powerful environment.
Example: https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/sigmaSd/visual-studio-code-wayland
I even have a script (invoked by a launcher) that runs wl-copy "gitpod.io/#"
Obviously you can just use the browser extension.
Currently I'm using gitpod to build an android apk from a flutter project https://github.com/sigmaSd/APOD/tree/gitpod (success!) and also building vscode with wayland support (success!(checkout update1)).
Couple of tips and tricks:
To be able to use sudo (which is really handy for installing dependencies without messing with the docker image) you can go to https://gitpod.io/settings/ and enable Feature Preview and that's it now you can!
Do not use the vscode vim extension, currently it makes everything slow, but that might change soon! https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/1212
Building an android apk is a little bit tricky, I wrote a simple guide here https://github.com/sigmaSd/flutter_gitpod
Downloading a file from gitpod sometimes freeze the ui.
Using python -m http.server seems to work better.
Update1: To build vscode with wayland support here are the steps https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/109176#issuecomment-806067083