Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by maratd » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 2:34 PM UTC

Yup, I have Cloud9 installed locally on my own server. All my coding is done through it. Fast, easily accessible over VPN, and complete control. Love having multiple terminals open right up on my server in the IDE and just flip through them using tabs.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by aikah » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 2:35 PM UTC

really like cloud9, I can test stuffs fast. But I'll be moving to vagrant + docker soon.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by task_queue » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 2:40 PM UTC

No, because none of them contain the static analysis and developer tools one comes to expect from a competent IDE.

Also coding in the browser has been a miserable experience.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by task_queue » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 2:42 PM UTC

sammorrowdrums wrote: post #6

The 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.

I wish I could agree, but debugging deployment or your app was close to impossible if you ran into a problem with their web IDE.

Maybe with time they'll workout the bugs.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by dandare » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 2:46 PM UTC

Any of these WEB IDEs support TypeScript? Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by favadi » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 2:54 PM UTC

alphabetam wrote: post #10

davydka wrote: post #9

Been IntelliJ Idea (or Webstorm) for years now. The excellent Git integration and diff tool is really useful

That's not a web ide. :-)

Maybe he thought we are talking about IDE for web development. :P

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by larryweya » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 2:54 PM UTC

I often use Jetbrains IDEs, currently using PHP Storm almost exclusivel. I love it's code refactoring, easy source code navigation to delarations.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by mox1 » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 2:56 PM UTC

At our office a lot of the development takes place on computers not connected to the internet, on a separate network. I installed Codiad (http://codiad.com/) on our dev server a year or so back. Recently it has taken off and a couple other guys are using it. I've slowly migrated from Eclipse + Remote Systems Explorer to Codiad.

Super easy to install (its all php based, very few dependencies), and for the most part "just works".

I have codiad open in the browser and usually a PuTTy window open on the server to test, run command line, etc.

We have Linux(Ubuntu) servers and a mix of OSX / Windows dev machines. Keeping Eclipse working across all of them was annoying (and explaining how to setup when a new Developer comes in). Now I just create a Codiad account, a ssh account and let them have at it.

I went down the path of attempting an "offline install" of Cloud9, but gave up after a while...it mostly assumes you have an active internet connection.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by Matachines » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 2:57 PM UTC

I used Cloud9 while doing Hartl's Rails tutorial and was very impressed. Would probably use it for my personal projects if I was on Windows.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by xoail » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 2:59 PM UTC

I've used Cloud9 completely to make drumroll.io. Very impressed for Node.js projects.