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Re: Runnable – Edit, run, and share code in your browser

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Post by ykumar6 »

ceeK wrote: post #11

At first I thought this was some sort of JSFiddle but for server backends. Is this what it is aimed at? Or is it more cloud development for teams?

First reaction sounds about right. We want to make it easy for anyone to share runnable code, across multiple stacks and platforms

Re: Runnable – Edit, run, and share code in your browser

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Post by creativename »

ebbv wrote: post #8

At the risk of giving away a million dollar idea; nobody's gonna wanna really edit things in the browser. Too risky and missing features of whatever their favorite editor is. But how about letting people push their code up via git? So you could have a runnable browser window open, push your changes up to your runnable repo and then hit run? If this does turn out to be the key that breaks this open please remember it…

Soooort of off-topic, but I've actually had a lot of success using Cloud9 IDE (https://c9.io/) as an in-browser editor. It really closely mirrors Sublime Text 2 as far as default functionality and appearance goes. Of course, I'm coming from a Visual Studio IDE background rather than a Vim/Emacs background, so I can't vouch for its usefulness for users more accustomed to that type of work environment.

Note: not affiliated with Cloud 9

Re: Runnable – Edit, run, and share code in your browser

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Post by bmuon »

ebbv wrote: post #8

At the risk of giving away a million dollar idea; nobody's gonna wanna really edit things in the browser. Too risky and missing features of whatever their favorite editor is. But how about letting people push their code up via git? So you could have a runnable browser window open, push your changes up to your runnable repo and then hit run? If this does turn out to be the key that breaks this open please remember it…

Here's another idea. JSBin is doing something pretty awesome: it uses the HTML5 File API so that you can select a file from your computer and it syncs to different instances of the same bin while you edit it in your favorite editor. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY56fNmn2cE (keep in mind the video was taken during development, now it's pretty stable).

BTW some people like editing in the browser and that's why Cloud9IDE is alive.

Re: Runnable – Edit, run, and share code in your browser

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Post by joshuamerrill »

ebbv wrote: post #8

At the risk of giving away a million dollar idea; nobody's gonna wanna really edit things in the browser. Too risky and missing features of whatever their favorite editor is. But how about letting people push their code up via git? So you could have a runnable browser window open, push your changes up to your runnable repo and then hit run? If this does turn out to be the key that breaks this open please remember it…

Support for git would be awesome, but I think the product now is pretty great. I'd love to be able to hack away on APIs without doing the set up work.

Re: Runnable – Edit, run, and share code in your browser

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Post by ykumar6 »

joshuamerrill wrote: post #17
ebbv wrote: post #8

At the risk of giving away a million dollar idea; nobody's gonna wanna really edit things in the browser. Too risky and missing features of whatever their favorite editor is. But how about letting people push their code up via git? So you could have a runnable browser window open, push your changes up to your runnable repo and then hit run? If this does turn out to be the key that breaks this open please remember it…

Support for git would be awesome, but I think the product now is pretty great. I'd love to be able to hack away on APIs without doing the set up work.

Git support is available in private beta.
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