Collaborative online IDE

A space where developers can collaborate in real-time on code👨🏾‍💻👩🏾‍💻.

Features

Personal space

When users create an account on the application, they get access to a personal space, where they can see all their projects and edit them.

Full-fledged code editor

Users have access to a full-fledged code editor with syntax highlighting and autocompletion (for the languages supported by monaco editor)

Collaborative code editing

• Several users can collaborate on a file together in real-time.
• Users can see on their respective editors a cursor showing where their collaborators are in the file.
• Users can invite other users to collaborate together on a project.

Future improvements

• Code execution
• Upload file
• File download
• Github integration
• Better support for programming languages
• Following feature during collaboration

How to run the app locally

• Create a new firebase project. Add a Firestore instance to this project.
• To install all the dependencies, run npm install in the root folder online-ide, the client folder and the server folder.
• Create a .env file in the server folder. Fill it with the Json file containing your firebase project service accout key. The .env file should be like so:

# Firebase project configuration
FIREBASE_ADMIN_SDK_SERVICE_ACCOUNT= __json containing the service account key__

# Password hashing configuration
HASH_CONFIG_ITERATION=100000
HASH_CONFIG_KEYLEN=128
HASH_CONFIG_DIGEST=sha512
HASH_CONFIG_SALT_LEN=64

• Use the function genKeyPair in the file online-ide/server/src/utils/jwt.ts to generate the RSA keys used by the server to sign the jwt tokens. It should create a folder named keys containing the files id_rsa_private.pem and id_rsa_pub.pem in the server folder
• Run the entire application (both client and server) by executing the command npm run dev in the project root directory online-ide.