Developing Dirigible's Projects via external IDE/WebIDE

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As we know Dirigible has own built-in WebIDE which can be bundled together with the AppServer stack. The AppServer on the other hand, is self-contained and does not have any dependency to the WebIDE, hence on production for instance it goes without it. The only connection point between the design time modules and runtime ones is the Registry component and the published content there or as pre-packed via WebJars equivalent.
The idea is to explore the options to develop Dirigible based projects via Eclipse, VSCode, Theia, and other IDEs/WebIDEs to avoid the lock-in to Dirigible's WebIDE. Having embedded Dirigible's AppServer as plugin to external environments will help to achieve the same In-System Development experience also there.