Quickstart tutorials

The following examples show you how you can get started very quickly with some of the most popular Cloud-based environments from different vendors to evaluate if such solutions work for you. There is more detailed guidance for our preferred solution, Red Hat® OpenShift Dev Spaces, in several detailed pages of this documentation section as well.

Red Hat Dev Spaces for OpenShift

The recommended cloud-based development environment is Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces that provides a cloud-based development environment that is fully integrated into Red Hat OpenShift. If you do not have access to an OpenShift cluster, you can try Z Open Editor for free by signing up for a 30-day trial of the Red Hat Developer Sandbox. See, the full tutorial for signing up and using Z Open Editor here.

GitHub Codespaces

Note: GitHub Codespaces is a paid-for service, but the first usage hours are free.

Z Open Editor can also be used with all of its capabilities in Microsoft's GitHub Codespaces. For a quickstart, try it by using this link that loads the Z Open Editor sample repository. When the workspace starts up, it automatically loads the Z Open Editor VS Code extension and applies several configuration options based on a so-called devcontainer specification.

To learn more about what you can do with Z Open Editor in Codespaces, go to Using Z Open Editor on GitHub Codespaces in this documentation section.

Pure web-based editing in vscode.dev and github.dev

Z Open Editor can be used as a pure web extension with limited capabilities when using Visual Studio Code in a browser, such as on vscode.dev or github.dev.

Go to the link and confirm in the dialog to install the recommended extensions by clicking Install. No language server capabilities are available, but provides syntax highlighting for all the supported languages.