Congratulations, Amasad, really nice work. I was glad to see the inclusion of Web Frameworks, and tried to set up a Classroom for Rails instruction but have a basic question: how are students able to execute rails commands in the IDE? How do you switch between the REPL and console? Thanks!
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
#92Congratulations, Amasad, really nice work. I was glad to see the inclusion of Web Frameworks, and tried to set up a Classroom for Rails instruction but have a basic question: how are students able to execute rails commands in the IDE? How do you switch between the REPL and console? Thanks!
Hey for now rails is only available in the rails interface because it just came out today. We're adding it to classrooms very soon. BTW feel free to email contact@repl.it and will happily answer all your questions.
Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps
#93Github 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 ?
Codeanywhere.com: full ide for any language/stack.
Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps
#94Hey 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…
Have you considered adding an advanced run option that doesn't obliterate the code in the REPL?
In particular, it would be great update a function or class select it and press a button to run the updated version in the REPL so that you wouldn't have to copy and paste it there manually.
Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps
#95Hey 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…
Have you considered adding an advanced run option that doesn't obliterate the code in the REPL? In particular, it would be great update a function or class select it and press a button to run the updated version in the REPL so that you wouldn't have to copy and paste it there manually.
Ah interesting I could see how this could be useful. Thank you, I'll think about how it could be implemented.
Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps
#96Hey 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…
repl.it looks awesome. It'd be interesting to hear more about how you're doing provisioning and orchestration. Are you running a Kubernetes or DC/OS cluster by chance? Are you spinning down idle instances after some time? What actually happens behind the scenes to make a deploy go live? etc
And then some more general questions - Can I hook a CI into the deploy loop? (Maybe that doesn't quite make sense given the model is something like Jupyter notebook meets Glitch.) Also, is there a repo being managed behind the scenes like GitHub does in Gist, and if so, any plans to open access to those?
Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps
#97Hey 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…
One of the main things preventing me from doing a really cool integration would be an API to programmatically create some REPLs and fill them with code. This would make Repl.it a fantastic product for API example code testing.
What kind of integration do you want to build?
Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps
#98I 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 suc…
Did you try Jupyter notebooks? They make for pretty nice local REPLs.
Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps
#99Forgive me, I'm sort of thinking out loud here. I like the idea of trying out new languages/frameworks using this. I would be concerned building any serious projects using Repl though. I'm worried about how much 'lock in' there is at the moment. How difficult would it be to move from Repl to AWS for example? My guess is that it would be significantly more difficult than moving from AWS to Azure or something like that…
You could just download your code and deploy on Heroku / App Engine / Elastic Beanstalk. Or an EC2 instance with basically an nginx config.
Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is the wake up on first request code open source by any chance? Would love to reuse for GitLab.
Not yet, hoping for a big push oss push next quarter. You want to use it for your ci/cd platform?
OK, thanks for letting us know. We want to use it for our PaaS functionality, but the PaaS will also be used by our Web IDE so it is competitive.