Remix Desktop
Devcon is coming in a few hours and we’d like to announce that the Remix IDE can be run as a desktop app (thanks to the awesome help of Philipp Langhans). This is a really big development!
The beta version has been released, please check it out and tell us your impression ;). As I said, this is still a beta and we need to do some work before making it a non-beta release, so, please use it very carefully!
Now both the online version and the desktop version of Remix come with the following changes:
- Imports are now loaded in the browser explorer and thus kept in the local storage. So if you load a file from github and refresh the page, the files will still be there. And if you right click on the folder, a context menu will appear (like in the image below), proposing to discard the changes. And when you discard changes, Remix will sync the folder with the upstream version on github.
- All file explorers support creating folders. When you select the option to
Generate contract metadata
, the generated metadata file is stored in the folder namedartifacts
(see the 2nd image below).
- Some of the remix plugins are stored and loaded from IPFS. We also have created a new repository for plugins: https://github.com/ethereum/remix-plugins-directory. We are planning that this repository will be where plugin developers will register their plugins . More about this soon — it’s still work in progress…
- And coming soon — Remix IDE will soon be usable offline.
Please give it a try — https://github.com/ethereum/remix-desktop/releases/tag/v1.0.3-beta.5 (it’s available in windows, linux, osx) and please share feedback with us - https://gitter.im/ethereum/remix-dev
Stay tuned and have a nice devcon!