Is there a hidden demographic of devs building React apps on iPads? This seems very, very niche.
I would love to run VSCode and a preview browser window on my iPad Pro.
Play.js: The Node.js and React Native IDE for iPhone and iPad
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#12Is there a hidden demographic of devs building React apps on iPads? This seems very, very niche.
Hidden? Probably more like latent. I build React apps all the times professionally and in my leisure time. I also use my iPad Pro a lot. I just don’t use my iPad Pro to make React apps, because I’ve never been aware of any feasible way to do so.
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#13Anything similar for android people who have some time to kill while commuting?
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#14Is there a hidden demographic of devs building React apps on iPads? This seems very, very niche.
Hidden? Probably more like latent. I build React apps all the times professionally and in my leisure time. I also use my iPad Pro a lot. I just don’t use my iPad Pro to make React apps, because I’ve never been aware of any feasible way to do so.
I’m in a similar boat. I desperately want to be able to develop on my iPad, but just haven’t found a good way to do it yet. The best I’ve found so far is programming a micro:bit with the scratch-like environment.
I’ll probably try this out, but what I really want is something like Max/MSP so is don’t have to type so much (although I do have a keyboard for my iPad, but it’s not something I like to type for long durations on)
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#15Anything similar for android people who have some time to kill while commuting?
Termux + Expo.io
Or Samsung's Linux on DeX works well for app dev on your phone.
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#16Is there a hidden demographic of devs building React apps on iPads? This seems very, very niche.
I would love to run VSCode and a preview browser window on my iPad Pro.
Have you tried codesandbox.io?
It is in my view the most sophisticated online editor with live preview and a huge load of starter templates to spare you the build configuration.
It is my go-to solution for when i have an idea and just want to build it quickly anywhere.
There is experimental support to use VSCode as the editor, togglable in the options.
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I would love to run VSCode and a preview browser window on my iPad Pro.
Have you tried codesandbox.io? It is in my view the most sophisticated online editor with live preview and a huge load of starter templates to spare you the build configuration. It is my go-to solution for when i have an idea and just want to build it quickly anywhere. There is experimental support to use VSCode as the editor, togglable in the options.
I have used it before, but didn't know about the VSCode option. I'll check that out. Thanks!
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hidden? Probably more like latent. I build React apps all the times professionally and in my leisure time. I also use my iPad Pro a lot. I just don’t use my iPad Pro to make React apps, because I’ve never been aware of any feasible way to do so.
I’m in a similar boat. I desperately want to be able to develop on my iPad, but just haven’t found a good way to do it yet. The best I’ve found so far is programming a micro:bit with the scratch-like environment. I’ll probably try this out, but what I really want is something like Max/MSP so is don’t have to type so much (although I do have a keyboard for my iPad, but it’s not something I like to type for long durati…
There are several very capable, full-blown dev environments available for the iPad and iPhone. I think the main ones are:
Codea for Lua https://codea.io/
Pythonista for Python http://omz-software.com/pythonista/
Continuous for .NET http://continuous.codes/
Codea and Pythonista also provide XCode templates you can drop your code into to create App Store apps from your projects. Not sure about Continuous.
Apple allowing iCloud syncing for code has removed the last real source of friction I'd had using Pythonista. Now I can write a script on my iPad, then reach over and run it on my phone, then if it's cross-platform sit at my Mac and run it from there too before checking it into Github. No fuss, no bother.
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#19I clicked the logo 3 times. It's not a video :)
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m in a similar boat. I desperately want to be able to develop on my iPad, but just haven’t found a good way to do it yet. The best I’ve found so far is programming a micro:bit with the scratch-like environment. I’ll probably try this out, but what I really want is something like Max/MSP so is don’t have to type so much (although I do have a keyboard for my iPad, but it’s not something I like to type for long durati…
There are several very capable, full-blown dev environments available for the iPad and iPhone. I think the main ones are: Codea for Lua https://codea.io/ Pythonista for Python http://omz-software.com/pythonista/ Continuous for .NET http://continuous.codes/ Codea and Pythonista also provide XCode templates you can drop your code into to create App Store apps from your projects. Not sure about Continuous. Apple allowin…
I’ve looked at the first two of those and I found them still too awkward due to being very text-typing heavy. Similar to play.js so I guess it mightn’t work well for me. I do have a keyboard and get by, but it’s uncomfortable for anything but shortish bursts and while I can of course use a normal keyboard, when I have one available I typically also have a laptop or desktop available so it’s easier to just use those. Like I said, I really dream of something more touch-friendly like an iPad-max/msp type language.
Still, I’ll try the ones you linked again and see. Maybe I got it wrong.