My understanding follows (I don’t use it but I’ve noticed the processes running on other people’s machines). Corrections welcome.
It’s split into a client (web frontend) and server that’s doing all the work. The server can be run anywhere but it’s effectively a bunch of stuff installed in a docker container. When you start an instance for a project, it creates a container for that instance with all the code folders etc bound in. LSPs are running in that container too.
It’s possible to use your own image as a base (you might have custom deps that make installing the requirements for an LSP hard, for example).
The trick they use here is that there’s some base container/volume that has most of the server stuff downloaded and rest to go. Whether you start a normal instance or from a custom image they do it the same way by just mounting this shared volume and installing what they need to bootstrap the server.
It also appears they create a frontend window per server process too. So the master client process starts, you select a project folder, they create a new server container and a new client window connected to it. The frontend client is local while each server can be anywhere (obviously you could run the client with X if you wanted to further muddy that).
It’s split into a client (web frontend) and server that’s doing all the work. The server can be run anywhere but it’s effectively a bunch of stuff installed in a docker container. When you start an instance for a project, it creates a container for that instance with all the code folders etc bound in. LSPs are running in that container too.
It’s possible to use your own image as a base (you might have custom deps that make installing the requirements for an LSP hard, for example).
The trick they use here is that there’s some base container/volume that has most of the server stuff downloaded and rest to go. Whether you start a normal instance or from a custom image they do it the same way by just mounting this shared volume and installing what they need to bootstrap the server.
It also appears they create a frontend window per server process too. So the master client process starts, you select a project folder, they create a new server container and a new client window connected to it. The frontend client is local while each server can be anywhere (obviously you could run the client with X if you wanted to further muddy that).