This feature has been merged as a plugin in eclipse/che-theia: https://github.com/eclipse/che-theia/pull/13/files
This example of how to build the Theia-based applications with a che-theia-machines extension.
Install nvm.
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.5/install.sh | bash
Install npm and node.
nvm install 8
nvm use 8
Install yarn.
npm install -g yarn
yarn rebuild:browser
cd browser-app
yarn start
Open http://localhost:3000 in the browser.
yarn rebuild:electron
cd electron-app
yarn start
Start watching of the che-theia-machines extension.
cd theia-machines-extension
yarn watch
Start watching of the browser example.
yarn rebuild:browser
cd browser-app
yarn watch
Launch Start Browser Backend configuration from VS code.
Open http://localhost:3000 in the browser.
Create a npm user and login to the npm registry, more on npm publishing.
npm login
Publish packages with lerna to update versions properly across local packages, more on publishing with lerna.
npx lerna publish