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Setting Up a Local Development Environment in Chrome OS

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Re: Setting Up a Local Development Environment in Chrome OS

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Post by benologist »

raingrove wrote: post #2

You should try Action.IO: https://www.action.io/

He covered web based IDEs and also having a dev machine to ssh into, most people have either no internet or shitty internet outside of their home and work. How does action.io solve that?

Re: Setting Up a Local Development Environment in Chrome OS

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Post by jstanley »

kostya-kow wrote: post #4

Is there a way to run a distro other than Ubuntu (Fedora, Arch)? I am planning to buy the x86 version, so it seems like it should be possible to install any distro on it. Is Crouton/ Chrubuntu for ARM version?

I can't speak for fedora (possibly febootstrap?) but it is already easy to install Arch in a chroot.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archbootstrap

If ChromeOS doesn't provide you enough tools to run archbootstrap, you can run archbootstrap on a separate machine with the chrome disk attached and then put the disk in the ChromeOS laptop. A bit of hassle but perfectly doable.

Re: Setting Up a Local Development Environment in Chrome OS

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Post by dysoco »

raingrove wrote: post #2

You should try Action.IO: https://www.action.io/

Looks nice, apparently supports Vim and Emacs too. Although it only works for Rails so far... there is a whole world out there that's not Rails. And they are only planning to support NodeJS, Django and some other frameworks.

Re: Setting Up a Local Development Environment in Chrome OS

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Post by iamclovin »

dysoco wrote: post #7
raingrove wrote: post #2

You should try Action.IO: https://www.action.io/

Looks nice, apparently supports Vim and Emacs too. Although it only works for Rails so far... there is a whole world out there that's not Rails. And they are only planning to support NodeJS, Django and some other frameworks.

Co-Founder of action.io here, we have python, node.js and go boxes already and many more in the pipeline. And in the future, the ability to create your own custom dev environment.

if you'd like an invite, please email me at arun action io

Re: Setting Up a Local Development Environment in Chrome OS

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Post by iamclovin »

benologist wrote: post #3
raingrove wrote: post #2

You should try Action.IO: https://www.action.io/

He covered web based IDEs and also having a dev machine to ssh into, most people have either no internet or shitty internet outside of their home and work. How does action.io solve that?

> most people have either no internet or shitty internet outside of their home and work

we think this is a situation of "skating to where the puck is going to be, rather than where it is", but we do have plans to build a bridge between an offline/online dev environment. If you'd like an invite, please email me at arun action io

Re: Setting Up a Local Development Environment in Chrome OS

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Post by benologist »

iamclovin wrote: post #9
benologist wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He covered web based IDEs and also having a dev machine to ssh into, most people have either no internet or shitty internet outside of their home and work. How does action.io solve that?

> most people have either no internet or shitty internet outside of their home and work we think this is a situation of "skating to where the puck is going to be, rather than where it is", but we do have plans to build a bridge between an offline/online dev environment. If you'd like an invite, please email me at arun action io

I'm offline multiple times a week, it wouldn't be enjoyable for me or useful for you guys at this stage.
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