I built a decent sized Meteor app a while ago on Nitrous, but started running out of memory on their free tier after a while. I recently switched to Codeanywhere, which I'm still evaluating. My main reason for using a cloud IDE is because I am a Windows user and I wanted to build something on the latest version of Meteor without needing to start up a Linux VM or Vagrant box.
Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?
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#12I use the SageMathCloud mathematics-oriented web-IDE for all of my development work. (I'm the lead developer of SageMathCloud.)
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#13I work primarily in Clojure and Python. I haven't found anything that lets me interact with project/virtualenv repls yet, let alone have reasonable completion/documentation lookup. I use crouton from my pixel2 so I can run spacemacs. I'd be open to suggestions.
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#14Due to Internet connection issues I can't use a cloud IDEs. However, I think https://cloudpebble.net/ is one of most populars.
Wish they support VIM keybindings as well.
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#15So far I've stuck to Eclipse, but I wonder about using one for Scala.js (which I'm planning on using for my next personal project) just because of the toolchain and because it seems like it could make the edit-test cycle shorter. Is there anything out there with integrated Scala.js support?
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#17I built a decent sized Meteor app a while ago on Nitrous, but started running out of memory on their free tier after a while. I recently switched to Codeanywhere, which I'm still evaluating. My main reason for using a cloud IDE is because I am a Windows user and I wanted to build something on the latest version of Meteor without needing to start up a Linux VM or Vagrant box.
Meteor works on Windows now.
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#18I'm not a developer; the closest I get is managing a few web servers for clients on the side. That said, if I were I'd spin up a Vultr or Dropbox instance and use something like Codiad[1], that way I could have complete control of the back end.
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#19All coding, note taking, writing, and drawing happens in Lively Web (http://lively-web.org) for me. It comes with a shell and nodejs integration as well as a websocket-based messaging systems that allows to integrate all sorts of different backends, e.g. Clojure (https://cloxp.github.io).
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#20I always found the cloud IDE's hard to work with. Mostly because of speed, and mostly because they are forcing all the tools (terminal, editor, etc) to live in one browser window.