Syntax Highlighting not working with Nativefier

• code-server version: v1.32.0-282
• OS Version: Mac, server hosted on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

Description

Synatx highlighting for all files does not work with Nativefier (which hosts a browser in an electron app). I’ve had occasional issues using it in the web browser where the syntax highlighting stops working, so this could be related.

Screenshot of console in a working browser window

Screenshot of console in the nativefier app

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install Nativefier npm install nativefier -g
2. Open vs code server with nativefier nativefier --ignore-certificate https://xx.xx.xx.xx:port The files do not have syntax highlighting

This was tested with all relevant looking flags (–insecure, --enable-es3-apis, --ignore-certificate, --flash), but none of them got syntax highlighting to work.

[Cosby5]

I was having the same problem. What I did was move the auth to Nginx using basic auth, then added a special case to turn it off. Nativefier can then be set with the username & password to auto-login. Now the only thing that escapes auth is the .wasm extension.

I also set the server to --no-auth.

auth_basic_user_file /path/to/.htpasswd;
auth_basic           "Administrator’s Area"

location ~ \.wasm {
  auth_basic off;
  ...
}
location / {
  ...
}

[nol166]

I followed the steps above and syntax highlighting seems to work, unless i am not understanding correctly: