Simplism IDE

What is Simplism IDE?

Simplism IDE is a "local cloud development environment" (*) to develop Extism plug-ins for the Simplism HTTP server without the need to install all the "complicated things".

(*) but you can use it remotely

The current version of Simplism is: simplism v0.1.1 🌕 [full moon]

How to start Simplism IDE

• git clone this repository
• The parameters (architecture and version of the installed softwares) are defined in the .env.

Start Simplism IDEI:

docker compose --env-file arm64.env up  -d
# docker compose --env-file amd64.env up  -d

• ✋ if you are on a arm architecture (mac silicon or linux arm) use arm64.env
• otherwise use amd64.env

Then go to: http://0.0.0.0:4060/?folder=/workspace

If you updated ./.docker/compose/Dockerfile or get a new version of this project, run this command before starting the builder:

docker compose --env-file arm64.env build
# docker compose --env-file amd64.env build

Stop the builder:

docker compose --env-file arm64.env down
# docker compose --env-file amd64.env down

Add "tasks" at start of the Simplism IDE

If you want to start some initial tasks (like installing VSCode extension) once the Simplism IDE container is started, you can update ./.tasks/init.sh

How to use it? (Write your first plug-in)

To write a Simplism plug-in have a look to the Simplism documentation:

• Create and serve an Extism (wasm) plug-in
• Create a JSON service with an Extism plug-in
• Start an Simplism service from a configuration file
• Start all the Slimplism services from a config file with the Flock mode

How to

Add a TLS certificate

Update the *.env files with the name of the certificate and the key:

For example:

TLS_CERT=ide.simplism.cloud.crt
TLS_CERT_KEY=ide.simplism.cloud.key

• Copy the certificate and the key to the ./certs folder
• Give the appropriates rights to the files: chmod 777 ide.simplism.cloud.*
• Add this to your hosts file: 0.0.0.0 ide.simplism.cloud
• Use this entrypoint in the compose.yaml file: entrypoint: ["code-server", "--cert", "/workspace/certs/${TLS_CERT}", "--cert-key", "/workspace/certs/${TLS_CERT_KEY}", "--auth", "none", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "${CODER_HTTP_PORT}", "/workspace"]

open https://ide.simplism.cloud:4060

Use Mkcert to generate your own certificates

Install mkcert

On macOS: brew install mkcert

Create your own certificate authority and public key infrastructure

# just once
# Install a new local CA in the system trust store
mkcert -install

Generate certificate

cd certs
mkcert \
-cert-file pi.personal.faas.crt \
-key-file pi.personal.faas.key \
personal.faas "*.personal.faas" localhost 127.0.0.1 ::1

Update hosts file

0.0.0.0 pi.personal.faas

the URL will be https://pi.personal.faas:4060

Use git

Open a terminal from the Web IDE

• Type this command git config --global --add safe.directory /ide.simplism.cloud
• And configure git (if necessary):

  git config --global user.name @your-handle
  git config --global user.email your@e.mail