The natural habitat for your tools and workflows: custom IDEs
Extensible platforms for developing cloud and desktop development environments using state-of-the-art web technology stacks.
Innovating.
Empowering.
Implementing.
Theia and VS Code
We build custom IDEs on top of Eclipse Theia and Visual Studio Code—the two most powerful foundations for modern, extensible development environments.
Designed for deep customization
Theia’s compile-time extension API lets you shape the architecture, UI, and workflows of your IDE—far beyond what’s possible with plugins alone.
Built on what devs already know
VS Code is the most widely used IDE today. Building on it means your tools feel instantly familiar to millions of developers and are easy to deploy.
Desktop, cloud, or both
You can package your IDE as a desktop app or deploy it into cloud development environments—or even target both platforms with the same code base.
One extension model, full flexibility
Theia and VS Code rely on the same plug-in extension model. This gives you maximum flexibility, so you’re not locked into a single platform.
Ten years of tools, trust, and the occasional breakthrough.
Since 2016, we’ve been building languages, IDEs, and frameworks—out in the open, for the long run. Turns out, that’s a pretty good way to spend a decade.
An ecosystem that supercharges your IDE
By building on the ecosystem of VS Code and Theia, we create development environments that feel coherent, capable, and ready to evolve with your product.
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This example workspace models a smart packaging line with line layout and PLC I/O mapping that feed a Python-based controller.
»I was honestly impressed by the quality of results we could see from our cooperation with TypeFox after only a short time.«
Alexandre Betis, Co-Founder, The Signalling Company
»TypeFox has been an outstanding partner from day one. They are reliable, provide high-quality work and are easy to interact with. The collaboration has been excellent, and we look forward to continuing to build on it.«
David Perez, Director of Embedded Developer Tools, Analog Devices
»Working with the TypeFox team has enabled us to expedite our engineering and bring important features to our customers.«
Mark Ledsome, VP Engineering, Plotly
»I had the pleasure of working with TypeFox to create a Web IDE dedicated to analytics for blockchain data. I am truly impressed by the remarkable skills of the TypeFox team. Collaborating with them is an enjoyable and rewarding experience.«
A. Lajmi, Tech Lead, Plugbee
»The cooperation with TypeFox went extremely smoothly. With the help of the professionals there, the first usable version of the language server and VS Code extension for our BBx language was up and running in a heartbeat.«
Stephan Wald, Head of Development, BASIS Europe
»I was honestly impressed by the quality of results we could see from our cooperation with TypeFox after only a short time.«
Alexandre Betis, Co-Founder, The Signalling Company
»TypeFox has been an outstanding partner from day one. They are reliable, provide high-quality work and are easy to interact with. The collaboration has been excellent, and we look forward to continuing to build on it.«
David Perez, Director of Embedded Developer Tools, Analog Devices
Counting on us means counting on a successful project.
Pioneers in IDE development
We initiated Eclipse Theia to establish a fully customizable, web-native, and vendor-neutral IDE platform—now a cornerstone of the Eclipse ecosystem.
Advisory support
Comprehensive advisory support throughout the entire design and implementation process of your development environment.
Creators of Open VSX
Open VSX is a VS Code extension registry governed by the Eclipse Foundation and trusted by major IDEs, cloud platforms, and industry players worldwide.
Trusted by a diverse range of industries:
Finance, insurance, consulting, data science, telecommunication, industrial automation, custom hardware (ASIC / SoC), automotive, railway
Trust us tooBeen there. Done that. Whatʼs next?
Gitpod originated at TypeFox as an exploration of fully automated, reproducible development environments. It grew rapidly beyond the initial scope, leading to its spin-out as an independent company, and later to its rebranding as Ona, a remote compute platform designed to support not only developer workspaces but also autonomous software agents and AI-driven engineering workflows.
Our commitment to innovation grows out of this way of working. By collaborating openly, investing in shared foundations, and contributing to communities around the tools we build, we help new ideas take shape—and, when they’re ready, grow into ecosystems that extend far beyond TypeFox.
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