'Native' AWS Cloud9 App

This repo captures the instructions found here:

https://www.chrishein.com/blog/2018/11/native-like-aws-cloud9-environment/

This produces a 'native' application on Mac, Windows, or Linux for AWS Cloud9 using the nativefier node package.

How to Run

First, install nativefier and its dependencies:

npm install

Next, go to your Cloud9 instance in your browser and get the URL for it. It will look something like https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ide/abc123.

Put the URL into a file named cloud9-url.txt and then run ./run.sh.

For example, on macOS, this will produce a directory named AWS Cloud9-darwin-x64 which includes an 'app' in AWS Cloud9-darwin-x64/AWS Cloud9.app. You can copy the AWS Cloud9.app bundle into your Applications directory and run it as a native macOS app.

Credits

All credit goes to Christopher Hein @christopherhein for this blog post.