Spike - Serving notebook editor content via our own webserver

[DonJayamanne]

Current issues with webview:

• Webpack bundle is 16MB (& growing)
• Opening webview over remote SSH is very slow as this file needs to get transmitted
• We cannot split the bundles and use lazy loading of bundles for react.

Proposal
Rather than using VS Code API to serve content for webview, we could start a web server in node to serve the contents.

• Start webserver locally using node.js (already done and still supported in VSC)
• Place an iframe pointing to above URL

Benefits

• Lazy loading of bundles
• Smaller bundles
• Better debugging
• Monaco can use webworkers (as the files are not served via a file scheme)

[DonJayamanne]

No longer used