In this section, we will provide details on how to install VS Code extension into Theia at runtime. How to install VS Code extension/plugins into Theia As a consequence you can install and use many VS Code plugins in Theia without any modification! This is a major advantage, as it allows to use the huge ecosystem of VS Code extensions in Eclipse Theia, too. The API available to plugins in Theia is actually the same as the one VS Code provides for its extensions. Theia provides two mechanisms to add new features to it: extensions and plugins (see here for the difference and more details on Eclipse Theia extensions and plugins ). What is the relationship between VS Code plugins and Eclipse Theia/Che? Let us dive right into the first question in the following section.
In case you are wondering what Eclipse Theia is, please see here for an introduction to Theia, our FaQ about Theia, here for a comparison between Eclipse Theia and VS Code and here for the relationship between Eclipse Theia and Che. In this article, we describe how to install and use VS Code plugins in the Eclipse Theia IDE and Eclipse Che (which uses Theia as the default IDE). However, Theia is compatible to VS Code in terms of extensions. The Eclipse Theia IDE is an open source platform to build web- and cloud-based tools, as an alternative to VS Code.
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