Vital Changes Needed for The Desktop App

Support Feature Requests
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The Replit Desktop app is pretty awesome – we can all agree on that.

But, some core features are missing from the original site, such as the community and profile + settings management. Along with this, when you think of a desktop IDE, you think of a app that can run programs offline! This should be the first and foremost update to the Replit Desktop App.
The Replit Desktop app is pretty awesome – we can all agree on that.

Here’s a list of some vital features that are currently missing:

  • Offline Programming
  • Replit Community (sharing, viewing profiles, following, etc.)
  • Replit Settings and Profile Management
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This will require a lot more development as Replit Desktop (I think) takes the data from the web version and puts it here.

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I’d think it be pretty simple: just download the code of a program onto the computer’s set directory for the Replit App and load that in when no connection is found.

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The desktop app isn’t supposed to be the website but desktop.
Community probably won’t be added (at least not for a long time anyway) as it’s meant to focus on the editing experience

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I’m not sure about that.
To run code offline you need the associated compilers/interpreters installed. You also need to have any package that you’ve used in your code downloaded and ready for offline use.
Here’s the biggest problem: some packages for programming languages are different per operating system. Your code may run fine on your Windows host, for example, but not on a Linux host.

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They could still use reproducible environments via containers

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what about size? not many people can constantly redownload GBs of containers every time your repl updates.

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