The Future of Angular Console

The end of our electron app

It is with a sad heart that I inform you that we’re no longer supporting our electron release of Angular Console. We have such a small team and this has made supporting both VSCode and Electron a strain on our resources, which led to releases below our desired quality (on both platforms). Ultimately, the VSCode extension has the benefit of getting to leverage VSCode’s existing infrastructure so we’ve made the decision to focus our energy on the extension. This seems like the right decision, rather than trying to bake the same feature’s into our electron application.

It turns out that writing a good integrated terminal is difficult. Much more difficult than could be supported by three developers devoting one day a week to supporting all the edge cases that come up on different platforms. The VSCode team has done a fantastic job of tackling edge cases associated with doing so. We are pleased to use the editor’s native APIs to run the Angular CLI inside their terminal, rather than rolling ours in our electron application.

Angular Console VSCode

Over the coming months we plan to add a number of exciting new features to our extension. Here are a couple of them, just to wet your whistle: