How To Set Up the Eclipse Theia Cloud IDE Platform

Eclipse Theia is an extensible cloud IDE running on a remote server and accessible from a web browser. Modeled after Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Theia supports many programming languages, custom extensions, and has an integrated terminal. In this tutorial, you’ll deploy Eclipse Theia to your server using Docker Compose, nginx-proxy as a reverse proxy, and HTTPS with a free TLS certificate from Let’sEncrypt. Choose your operating system to get started.

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