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Show HN: PairForce – Collaborative Cloud IDE and Terminal Powered by Docker

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Re: Show HN: PairForce – Collaborative Cloud IDE and Terminal Powered by Docker

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Post by alexdme »

PairForce was initially created because I wanted to give test driven development interviews for remote candidates, but I quickly started using my prototype for mentoring junior engineers and pair programming. I was frustrated with existing tools because they were either slow (screenshare), restrictive (all users had to have accounts), or limited (no terminal).

I hope you find it as useful as I have. As a thank you for trying out Pairforce, get 6 months free with promocode “hackernews”.

Re: Show HN: PairForce – Collaborative Cloud IDE and Terminal Powered by Docker

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Post by alexdme »

mrcoles wrote: post #5

What does the IDE look like? Or do I have access to a terminal where I can use something like emacs or vim?

The IDE is powered by ACE editor, but you have a terminal that is 100% capable of running emacs / vim, but since the terminals are shared you can't have multiple cursors like you can in the editor.

But you can also enable vim mode from the editor settings if that's your jam.

Re: Show HN: PairForce – Collaborative Cloud IDE and Terminal Powered by Docker

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Post by icecube »

alexdme wrote: post #7
mrcoles wrote: post #5

What does the IDE look like? Or do I have access to a terminal where I can use something like emacs or vim?

The IDE is powered by ACE editor, but you have a terminal that is 100% capable of running emacs / vim, but since the terminals are shared you can't have multiple cursors like you can in the editor. But you can also enable vim mode from the editor settings if that's your jam.

I would like to see screenshots and a list of supported languages/frameworks.

Also, the homepage says "Run it, commit it, and move on". Do you have native support for git? (And if you do, is it just github, or do you support gitlab, bitbucket, etc?)

Re: Show HN: PairForce – Collaborative Cloud IDE and Terminal Powered by Docker

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Post by alexdme »

icecube wrote: post #8
alexdme wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The IDE is powered by ACE editor, but you have a terminal that is 100% capable of running emacs / vim, but since the terminals are shared you can't have multiple cursors like you can in the editor. But you can also enable vim mode from the editor settings if that's your jam.

I would like to see screenshots and a list of supported languages/frameworks. Also, the homepage says "Run it, commit it, and move on". Do you have native support for git? (And if you do, is it just github, or do you support gitlab, bitbucket, etc?)

The containers are powered by docker, and all of our pre-built docker images come with git pre-installed. You have root on the machines so you can use a package manager to install any packages you feel are missing (the pre-built docker images are ubuntu so you could run `sudo apt-get install subversion` for instance).

Since we're not opinionated you should be able to pull/push from any git server.

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