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Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

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Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

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Post by hayaodeh2 »

ythn wrote: post #24
amasad wrote: post #11

Hey HN, author and Repl.it cofounder here. It's been a long journey to get to what we're calling 1.0 and HN have been there on every step of the way. We started working on what became Repl.it back in school where we were tired of setting up the development environment on every machine we wanted to code on. It was at a time where everything was moving to the cloud and we thought that, naturally, coding would follow su…

Just wanted to say I love repl.it and use it all the time!

Thank you for your nice words. We always love to hear feedback from people using Repl.it, it helps us to improve and create a better experience for you and everyone else.

Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

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Post by amasad »

mimming wrote: post #26
amasad wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I could see how this could be misleading. So the open-source tech you linked to is outdated -- we moved everything from the client-side to our own infra (because we wanted to do things like open a port). We intend to open source the backend infra too but it takes time for the protocol to stabilize. The "open-source" section on the homepage is intended to show that some open-source projects (for example Jest https…

The teacher you're thinking of from last year is me :) Thanks a lot for the great classroom product, and your support. It made my work a lot easier.

Oh awesome, thanks! Glad we could help.

Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

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Post by dopeboy »

amasad wrote: post #11

Hey HN, author and Repl.it cofounder here. It's been a long journey to get to what we're calling 1.0 and HN have been there on every step of the way. We started working on what became Repl.it back in school where we were tired of setting up the development environment on every machine we wanted to code on. It was at a time where everything was moving to the cloud and we thought that, naturally, coding would follow su…

Amjad & Haya, it's been fascinating to watch the journey you're on. Congratulations on reaching this milestone.

Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

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Post by hayaodeh2 »

52-6F-62 wrote: post #29
ythn wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just wanted to say I love repl.it and use it all the time!

I'd like to echo this. It's been improving so rapidly it's hard to keep up!

We love what we do, and it makes us happy to empower you with the tools you need to build what you want using Repl.it

Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

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Post by akkartik »

amasad wrote: post #8
akkartik wrote: post #6

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How much of a priority is supporting automated tests? I'm trying to think about how a repl would interact with a test runner.

We do support that in our Classroom product ( https://repl.it/classroom ) so it'd be pretty easy to expose that in our repl interface. Might be able to knock this out in an afternoon. (For NodeJS developers we support Jest out of the box: https://repl.it/@amasad/try-jest ).

Thanks!

This example always runs the tests when you hit cmd-enter. I was wondering how you would have a running program with tests.

I looked in https://repl.it/ibuiltthis but couldn't easily find examples of NodeJS projects. Could you point me at one? (Feel free to point me at a better forum for these noob questions.)

Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

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Post by amasad »

akkartik wrote: post #35
amasad wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We do support that in our Classroom product ( https://repl.it/classroom ) so it'd be pretty easy to expose that in our repl interface. Might be able to knock this out in an afternoon. (For NodeJS developers we support Jest out of the box: https://repl.it/@amasad/try-jest ).

Thanks! This example always runs the tests when you hit cmd-enter. I was wondering how you would have a running program with tests. I looked in https://repl.it/ibuiltthis but couldn't easily find examples of NodeJS projects. Could you point me at one? (Feel free to point me at a better forum for these noob questions.)

Fullstack apps support was just released to do so not many examples on our forum. If you go to https://repl.it/languages/express you'll see a simple scaffold for ExpressJS.

I started moving my blog to Repl.it, can be found here: https://repl.it/@amasad/blog

Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

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Post by joshuahutt »

amasad wrote: post #11

Hey HN, author and Repl.it cofounder here. It's been a long journey to get to what we're calling 1.0 and HN have been there on every step of the way. We started working on what became Repl.it back in school where we were tired of setting up the development environment on every machine we wanted to code on. It was at a time where everything was moving to the cloud and we thought that, naturally, coding would follow su…

I've been using repl.it for a couple of (or more, I suppose) years now, and it's been very helpful to have a simple, reliable REPL to jump into, test things out, and to share code. I've turned students and colleagues to it, too. I'm excited to see where you're taking it. I hope it continues to load and run quickly.

Just wanted to say thanks for building it, and keep up the great work!

Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

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Post by amasad »

twoquestions wrote: post #38

This looks wonderful! I'd love to go through SICP or learn Haskell or something with this! Are there plans to include Erlang or Elixir or $your_favorite_language by chance?

Incidentally the first interpreter on repl.it was scheme. I was going through SICP and was tired of installing Dr Scheme everywhere.

Yes I love both these languages and will add support for them soon.

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