Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 3:19 PM UTC

saboot wrote: post #31

maratd wrote: post #21

Yup, I have Cloud9 installed locally on my own server. All my coding is done through it. Fast, easily accessible over VPN, and complete control. Love having multiple terminals open right up on my server in the IDE and just flip through them using tabs.

This looks great, it could be a good tool for setting up dev environments for student interns. Not sure how well the C++ is. Their documentation [1] doesn't list how to install privately, nor is the pricing for private setups clear. Could you share how you set this up, and how much it costs? https://docs.c9.io/v1.0/docs/picking-a-plan

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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by antidaily » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 3:19 PM UTC

Yeah I can edit files over FTP from CPanel. Works awesome, guys.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by karn09 » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 3:20 PM UTC

I've used Cloud9, Nitrous, and currently messing around with Codenvy, and a few others that were very lacking. My favorite so far is Cloud9, which has a ton of useful features. Nitrous is second but lacking features such as code beautify which is annoying.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by vvpan » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 3:20 PM UTC

mrfusion wrote: post #32

Ok really dumb question. How do they see your local files?

Or how do you run your app unless it's a front-end app? Just in isolated virtual environments?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by freebs » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 3:26 PM UTC

I used terminal.com the past few weeks. It had a couple quirks that were easy to get used to. It was stable until this last weekend where it was very slow and timing out the entire weekend. Sent them a tweet and support email on Saturday, they finally tweeted me back on Tuesday. Kind of frustrating but it is a fairly new service. I'm hoping that services such as Nitrous and C9 are much more stable since they've been around a bit longer. I guess I'll find out...

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by csomar » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 3:28 PM UTC

I use VIM. You can read my configuration here: http://omarabid.com/my-vim-configuration/

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by btreecat » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 3:29 PM UTC

We have a few web2py projects at work and I find that the built in IDE/debugger works just fine and is less of a hassle than Pycharm although a lot less robust as well.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by mark_l_watson » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 3:34 PM UTC

emidln wrote: post #13

I 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.

I have used nitrous.io for some Clojure work (and Ruby and Node) and you have as many terminal windows open on an instance as you want.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by iancarroll » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 3:36 PM UTC

freebs wrote: post #45

I used terminal.com the past few weeks. It had a couple quirks that were easy to get used to. It was stable until this last weekend where it was very slow and timing out the entire weekend. Sent them a tweet and support email on Saturday, they finally tweeted me back on Tuesday. Kind of frustrating but it is a fairly new service. I'm hoping that services such as Nitrous and C9 are much more stable since they've been…

Terminal is neat, but I've had my instance fail to start twice and I never got a response from help@terminal.com. Ended up having to wait a few days each time for it to start working again.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by timwis » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 3:37 PM UTC

I used Koding.com and c9.io extensively but got really frustrated when they were down or slow due to high usage, so just got my own $5/mo box and began doing it there.

I use [codebox](https://github.com/CodeboxIDE/codebox) on a digital ocean droplet for nearly all my development. It's a simple-to-install node app, though it's not being actively developed from what I can tell so I'd really like to switch to a local install of cloud9.