Enable Dendron to run on VS Code on the web

[digitarald]

👋 I'm Harald, a PM from the VS Code team, and we recently announced VS Code for the Web at https://vscode.dev/, which provides a free, zero-install Microsoft Visual Studio Code experience running entirely in your browser. You can learn more here.

We'd like to ensure that Dendron* can run in the web, and we have a guide for enabling extensions for the web here. As a couple of highlights:

• In VS Code for the Web, both the UI and extension host run inside the browser.
• A web extension is structured like a regular extension, but with a different main file: it's defined by the browser property
• Access to workspace files needs to go through the VS Code file system API accessible at vscode.workspace.fs
• There are currently three ways to test a web extension

Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions or if I can help somehow. Thank you

[jonathanyeung]

Thanks @digitarald for the suggestion and offer of help - we certainly want to enable Dendron on VS Code Web at some point, but right now we have a large reliance on node processes.

[bamurtaugh]

Hi @jonathanyeung! Super glad to hear the interest in enabling Dendron for the web. If you have any new thoughts or questions on this, we'd be happy to discuss further. Thank you!

[CyberFoxar]

Dendron works via a web-based code server, such as lscr.io/linuxserver/code-server:latest.

However, it seems the vscode.workspace.fs API is not properly used by dendron and leads to pain in setting it up for web-based usage.