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Prevent duplicate instances by coordinating via a socket (#2691)
We've been getting a bunch of panics from duplicate app instances
competing over the local sqlite DB. After chatting with @mikayla-maki we
determined it was probably best to add our own mechanism to prevent
duplicates rather than just relying on the OS. My logic is that we'd
need to build a system like this eventually for Windows/Linux anyway so
it's more appealing than reworking our local DB access to be able to
cooperate with another process while likely isn't something we want to
support anyway.

I attempted to keep this mechanism conservative so in the case of
another program interfering with it we should fail somewhat gracefully
and still continue to launch, albeit without the ability to prevent
another instance from launching.

Fixes
https://linear.app/zed-industries/issue/Z-2435/thread-background-executor-1-panicked-at-could-not-send-write-action

Release Notes:
- Added a mechanism to prevent duplicate Zed instances from launching to
avoid a crash.
2023-07-07 14:38:55 -04:00
.cargo Use xtask for theme generation 2023-06-21 18:48:09 +02:00
.config tests: Test 'db' package sequentially (#2654) 2023-06-28 15:00:43 +02:00
.github Use nextest instead of test (#2639) 2023-06-22 16:50:26 +02:00
.vscode Hit the local server when debugging 2021-08-24 17:11:40 -06:00
assets Merge branch 'main' into Z-1292/show_search_results_in_scrollbar 2023-07-06 11:43:44 +02:00
crates Avoid checking for duplicate instance when local DB is disabled 2023-07-07 14:20:39 -04:00
docs color_scheme -> theme 2023-07-04 01:20:56 -04:00
plugins Use the same serde version across the entire workspace 2023-03-28 09:42:00 -07:00
script Added muted and currently speaking tracking 2023-06-27 19:23:13 -07:00
styles Update scrollbar selection style 2023-07-06 10:54:47 -04:00
.dockerignore Removed old experiments settings and staff mode flag, added new StaffMode global that is set based on the webserver's staff bit 2023-01-27 15:43:12 -08:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'main' into sergey/z-2308-create-a-proof-of-concept-of-exporting-a-type-from-rust-and 2023-06-22 17:58:56 +02:00
.gitmodules WIP: start on live_kit_server 2022-10-17 09:59:16 +02:00
Cargo.lock chore: Replace lazy_static Mutex with const. (#2693) 2023-07-07 15:07:12 +02:00
Cargo.toml Add first-pass sound support to Zed 2023-07-03 13:30:04 -07:00
Dockerfile chore: bump MSRV to 1.70, add rust-toolchain (#2580) 2023-06-06 23:49:34 +02:00
Procfile Add livekit to the Procfile, update the README 2022-10-27 13:24:35 -07:00
README.md Clarify GH Token scope requirements 2023-05-02 12:12:57 +03:00
rust-toolchain.toml chore: add targets to rust-toolchain.toml (#2581) 2023-06-07 00:12:47 +02:00

Zed

CI

Welcome to Zed, a lightning-fast, collaborative code editor that makes your dreams come true.

Development tips

Dependencies

  • Install Postgres.app and start it.

  • Install the LiveKit server and the foreman process supervisor:

    brew install livekit
    brew install foreman
    
  • Ensure the Zed.dev website is checked out in a sibling directory:

    cd ..
    git clone https://github.com/zed-industries/zed.dev
    
  • Initialize submodules

    git submodule update --init --recursive
    
  • Set up a local zed database and seed it with some initial users:

    Create a personal GitHub token to run script/bootstrap once successfully: the token needs to have an access to private repositories for the script to work (repo OAuth scope). Then delete that token.

    GITHUB_TOKEN=<$token> script/bootstrap
    

Testing against locally-running servers

Start the web and collab servers:

foreman start

If you want to run Zed pointed at the local servers, you can run:

script/zed-with-local-servers
# or...
script/zed-with-local-servers --release

Dump element JSON

If you trigger cmd-alt-i, Zed will copy a JSON representation of the current window contents to the clipboard. You can paste this in a tool like DJSON to navigate the state of on-screen elements in a structured way.

Licensing

We use cargo-about to automatically comply with open source licenses. If CI is failing, check the following:

  • Is it showing a no license specified error for a crate you've created? If so, add publish = false under [package] in your crate's Cargo.toml.
  • Is the error failed to satisfy license requirements for a dependency? If so, first determine what license the project has and whether this system is sufficient to comply with this license's requirements. If you're unsure, ask a lawyer. Once you've verified that this system is acceptable add the license's SPDX identifier to the accepted array in script/licenses/zed-licenses.toml.
  • Is cargo-about unable to find the license for a dependency? If so, add a clarification field at the end of script/licenses/zed-licenses.toml, as specified in the cargo-about book.

Wasm Plugins

Zed has a Wasm-based plugin runtime which it currently uses to embed plugins. To compile Zed, you'll need to have the wasm32-wasi toolchain installed on your system. To install this toolchain, run:

rustup target add wasm32-wasi

Plugins can be found in the plugins folder in the root. For more information about how plugins work, check the Plugin Guide in crates/plugin_runtime/README.md.