remix-project/docs/layout.md

Remix-IDE Layout

The new structure

1. Icon Panel - click to change which plugin appears in the Swap Panel
2. Swap Panel - Most but not all plugins will have their GUI here.
3. Main Panel - In the old layout this was just for editing files. In the tabs can be plugins or files for the IDE to compile.
4. Terminal - where you will see the results of your interactions with the GUI's. Also you can run scripts here.

Icon Panel at Page Load

When you load remix - the icon panel show these icons by default.

Everything in remix is now a plugin... so the Plugin Manager is very important. In the old layout, each basic task in remix was separated into the tabs. Now these tabs are plugins.

But to load up 5 or 6 of plugins each time the page load can be tedious. So learn about the Environmentse.

Homepage

The homepage is located on a tab in the Main Panel. You can also get there from the top of the settings screen in the swap panel.

Environments

Clicking on one of the environment buttons loads up a collection of plugins. We currently have a Solidity Button and a Vyper button. In the future you will be able to save your own environment.

To see all the plugins go to the plugin manager - by selecting the plug in the icon panel.

The environment buttons are time & sanity savers - so you don't need to go to the plugin manager to get started everytime you load the page.

Plugin Manager

In order to make remix flexible for integrating changes into its functionality, we've now made everything a plugin. This means that you need to go turn off and turn on all the plugins.