Feature/gitpod

[SergioGasquez]

Include support for online workspaces with Gitpod

Closes #61

[justahero]

Hello @SergioGasquez ,

first of all thank you for adding gitpod support. I tested the new gitpod link in the Readme, it was quite a neat experience to either have the VS Code editor open via web or connecting the desktop editor to the gitpod workspace remotely. 👍

As this is a new setup (I have not much experience with) we would like to add brief instructions to the book, could you help me with the following questions?

• can this environment be used to flash a embedded device locally?
• if yes could you give the instructions on how to achieve that when they differ from the instructions in the training book?
• if not, is the gitpod environment meant to be used only in combination with the wowki simulator?
• are there any necessary requirements or steps the user needs to be aware of (e.g. requires Github account) or that you recommend?

Thanks so much, this helps us to ensure we provide the right instructions for users.

[justahero]

Cleaning even more unnecessary folders is good 👍

[SergioGasquez]

Hello! Thanks for your feedback! I will be addressing the other comments soon. Those changes on the Dockerfile are in another PR: #69, maybe we should first merge those changes since it reduces build time (by properly activating esp-idf environment) and the Dockerfile is more polished!

[justahero]

There are few version bumps that update esp related dependencies. Would you mind putting that into a separate Pull Request? If that is a required change to make the gitpod environment work, please add a comment.

Once PR #66 is in main, we can use the CI pipeline to ensure no breaking change is introduced when updating dependencies.

[SergioGasquez]

Yes, those are addressed in a different PR. Sorry, maybe I should have closed this PR until #69 gets merged to avoid confussion.

[SergioGasquez]

• can this environment be used to flash a embedded device locally?
• if yes could you give the instructions on how to achieve that when they differ from the instructions in the training book?
• if not, is the gitpod environment meant to be used only in combination with the wowki simulator?

No, at the moment we don't know any way of flashing from gitpod, although we are working on it. That being said, since you can download the resulting binaries, there are two alternative methods:

• Flashing with ESP Web Flasher
• Flashing from your host machine with idf.py or cargo-espflash

Gitpod can be used to simulate all the projects with Wokwi (I will create the PR once we address the 2 currently opened), but it can also be used to compile all the projects without having to install anything on the host machine.

• are there any necessary requirements or steps the user needs to be aware of (e.g. requires Github account) or that you recommend?

Gitpod only requires an account which can be created with a GitLab, GitHub or Bitbucket account.

[justahero]

Thanks a lot for the notes on gitpod, that will help a lot when adding instructions to the book. 👍

[SergioGasquez]

Hello @justahero ! Following todays merges, I've merged changes from main branch and run the test.sh script successfully from gitpod, so all the projects are building fine!

[justahero]

A few weeks ago (after this PR was opened) the rust-analyzer project moved into the official Rust GH account. It's now available under the identifier rust-lang.rust-analyzer.

[SergioGasquez]

Gitpod uses the Open VSX registry, where rust-analyzer is still under matklad.rust-analyzer, I will try to keep an eye on it in case it gets updated!

[justahero]

Good to know.

[justahero]

LGTM