update repo's configs for Electron 9 / node 12

Fixes #106

A few little tweaks are necessary to accommodate the new Electron and node versions. ATM the Electron example app fails at runtime when running on Gitpod, because of a missing a dynamic library:

/workspace/theia-trace-extension/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libgbm.so.1: cannot

We need to update the Gitpod config so the dockerfile used for this repoi will contain a new Ubuntu package, required for Electron 9. This config file originally came from the main Theia repo, and the updated version is the same. See LICENSE.gitpod.md for more details.

Here's where the --no-sandbox idea came from - it permits the Electron version of the example app to start in Gitpod:
eclipse-theia/theia#7968 (comment)

Also, for the Electron version of the example application to work correctly in Gitpod (potentially in any container-based environment), it's required to use the "--ignore-gpu-blacklist" startup paramter.

Signed-off-by: Marc Dumais <[email protected]>

.gitpod.dockerfile

@@ -8,13 +8,12 @@ RUN sudo apt-get update \
     # window manager
     && sudo apt-get install -y jwm \
     # electron
-    && sudo apt-get install -y libgtk-3-0 libnss3 libasound2 \
+    && sudo apt-get install -y libgtk-3-0 libnss3 libasound2 libgbm1 \
     # native-keymap
     && sudo apt-get install -y libx11-dev libxkbfile-dev \
     && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-# Pin Node.js to v10.
-ENV NODE_VERSION="10.21.0"
+ENV NODE_VERSION="12.14.1"
 RUN bash -c ". .nvm/nvm.sh \
     && nvm install $NODE_VERSION \
     && nvm use $NODE_VERSION \

.gitpod.yml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ tasks:
     yarn download:sample-traces &&
     yarn
   command: >
-    yarn start:electron ../TraceCompassTutorialTraces/ --hostname=0.0.0.0
+    yarn start:electron --ignore-gpu-blacklist ../TraceCompassTutorialTraces/ --hostname=0.0.0.0
 github:
   prebuilds:
     pullRequestsFromForks: true

browser-app/package.json

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     "download:plugins": "theia download:plugins -p=true"
   },
   "engines": {
-    "node": ">=10.2.0 < 12"
+    "node": ">=10.2.0 < 13"
   },
   "theiaPluginsDir": "plugins",
   "theiaPlugins": {

electron-app/package.json

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "name": "electron-theia-trace-example-app",
   "main": "scripts/theia-trace-main.js",
   "build": {
-    "electronVersion": "4.2.12"
+    "electronVersion": "9.1.2"
   },
   "version": "0.0.1",
   "theia": {
@@ -47,14 +47,14 @@
   },
   "scripts": {
     "prepare": "theia build --mode development && yarn download:plugins",
-    "start": "theia start --plugins=local-dir:./plugins",
+    "start": "theia start --plugins=local-dir:./plugins --no-sandbox",
     "watch": "theia build --watch --mode development",
     "package": "electron-builder",
     "package:preview": "electron-builder --dir",
     "download:plugins": "theia download:plugins -p=true"
   },
   "engines": {
-    "node": ">=10.2.0 < 12"
+    "node": ">=10.2.0 < 13"
   },
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",