It seems like there's a new web/cloud IDE every month. Codenvy, Cloud9, Koding, Nitrous, Codebox, etc. Has anyone shifted their development environment to one of these successfully for a decent size project?
Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?
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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?
#2I have one pretty big project on Cloud9. The main reason is that I can assist designer whenever he needs any help.
At the beginning when everything moved around a lot it was just time-consuming to give him instruction on how to update to newer version. We kept everything on there and it is working pretty well for us.
I do most of development locally but sometimes when I am away and need something quick I do it over C9.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?
#3Not _most_, but I do a decent amount of development through Cloud9 on a Chromebook. I'd intended to install Ubuntu on it, but actually because of C9 I've not needed to. It's also proven invaluable for assisting people; the ability to spin up a fresh new C9 VM to collaboratively debug a project has been very useful.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?
#4FPComplete built a web IDE for Haskell development but recently decided to open-source the backend and focus on tools instead: https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/04/future-of-soh-fphc
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?
#5I got into C9 to develop on a Chromebook but found it simple and functional enough to use in general. I only use it with remote servers so the size of the project doesn't really matter. It might if you want to collaborate with a bunch of people all live editing through C9's collaboration feature, but I haven't tested that.
The only other downside is that it requires you to install a bunch of deps and an outdated version of Node.js on whatever remote server you connect it to. I wish they'd make some of that optional.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?
#6The Pebble Web IDE is actually really pretty good! I generally don't use them, but for Pebble it was easier, as it offers direct deployment, complication toolchain etc.
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#7The Pebble Web IDE is actually really pretty good! I generally don't use them, but for Pebble it was easier, as it offers direct deployment, complication toolchain etc.
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#8The Pebble Web IDE is actually really pretty good! I generally don't use them, but for Pebble it was easier, as it offers direct deployment, complication toolchain etc.
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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?
#9Been IntelliJ Idea (or Webstorm) for years now. The excellent Git integration and diff tool is really useful
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?
#10Been IntelliJ Idea (or Webstorm) for years now. The excellent Git integration and diff tool is really useful
That's not a web ide. :-)