Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

repl.it

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 140 posts

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

#51

Post by amasad »

vosper wrote: post #48

I'm not sure I'll use repl.it as an IDE (I'm quite attached to my Jetbrains products) but I use it all the time for quickly prototyping bits of Javascript code. It's been incredibly useful for me. Congrats on reaching 1.0!

I'm not sure I would either and I'm the CEO. I love Emacs. I'll work to convince myself to use it as my primary IDE and if I did maybe then others would. For now, I'll use it for launching microservices, quick experiments, prototyping, side-projects etc.

However, fun thing to share is that a lot of kids get started programming on Repl.it and continue to use it as their IDE.

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

#52

Post by gigatexal »

amasad wrote: post #3
gigatexal wrote: post #2

I use repl.it a lot but the python autocompleter is seriously lacking.

Yes, we're on it. We're implementing a language-server-protocol LSP for Python and most of our languages. Coming out soon.

Thank you!!! Best of luck.

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

#53

Post by fenollp »

amasad wrote: post #40
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.

I'll gladly help with that!

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

#54

Post by gigatexal »

amasad wrote: post #37
akkartik wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

holy crap -- that's really neat. Being able to run and tinker with code snippets in a blog like that is a killer feature.

Being hosted on Repl.it -- can you still SEO things for google?

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

#55

Post by amasad »

fenollp wrote: post #53
amasad wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'll gladly help with that!

Pierre? Email me, interested in doing this

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

#56

Post by amasad »

gigatexal wrote: post #54
amasad wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

holy crap -- that's really neat. Being able to run and tinker with code snippets in a blog like that is a killer feature. Being hosted on Repl.it -- can you still SEO things for google?

Yeah I don't see why not. We're planning on creating a page for websites hosted on Repl.it.

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

#57

Post by hayaodeh2 »

dopeboy wrote: post #33
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.

The Repl.it team has been working so hard, thank you for your support.

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

#58

Post by runevault »

This sounds amazing. I don't know how much I would personally use it, but at a minimum I'm going to keep it in mind for telling anyone wanting to learn and do tutorials in anything this supports, as seems far and away the best way to learn w/o fighting with environment. Huge Kudos.

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

#59

Post by lucasverra »

mshenfield wrote: post #28

Github seems like they're gearing up to offer a similar service [0]. Cloud9, and notably Glitch [1] offer similar and well executed services. [0] https://github.com/atom/xray#web-compatibility [1] http://glitch.com/

Just for the sake of listing, what "alternatives" are available today ? I can think of

1. Codepen (pure HTML+CSS+JS+frameworks)

2. jsfiddle.net/ (pure HTML+CSS+JS+frameworks)

3. Cloud 9 (full ide?)

4. https://anvil.works/ (pure Python)

5. CaptainDuckDuck ?

6. Repl.It

7. https://glitch.com/

8. Runkit.io (pure node.js)

Other ?

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

#60

Post by AcerbicZero »

I was a huge fan of Repl.it while I was learning Ruby, but I was never able to leverage it into anything other than self-teaching. I have however, wasted many hours trying to get various local IDEs to replicate the experience of Repl.it, so that's gotta count for something.

In the end, I transitioned to Visual Studio Code, but VS Code doesn't have the same inline repl (or I've yet to get it to work correctly). It sucks by comparison, but it has the advantage of actually working locally.

Post reply on HN