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Play.js: The Node.js and React Native IDE for iPhone and iPad

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Re: Play.js: The Node.js and React Native IDE for iPhone and iPad

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Node should be the easiest to conform to Apple’s policies. It is using the native JavaScript engine.

Node and a native JavaScript engine aren't the same thing, unless the native JavaScript engine on iOS is Node.

Which it's not. iOS uses JavaScriptCore https://developer.apple.com/documentation/javascriptcore

Re: Play.js: The Node.js and React Native IDE for iPhone and iPad

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Cool but why though? I understand for those small percentage of iPad users this will be great.

You don’t need to know how to code to use it https://twitter.com/playdotjs/status/1098477904382578688?s=2...

Very cool

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Is there something similar that would allow me to use one of these on iPad Pro: - A fully featured linux desktop with Visual Studio Code and a terminal - A sandboxed terminal with persistent storage - A text editor and a rust compiler - A text editor I could always ssh into my raspberry pi while at home, which is my second best solution. But, if anyone has some ideas/solutions in mind that require even a large bit of…

Here's how I do this: https://stephendotz.com/posts/pocket-dev/ Originally I set it up on my iPhone, but now I use my iPad Pro "13 w/ the keyboard cover and it's really pleasant. I've written a ton of code on it. Front-end work is a little bit less fun because there aren't any browsers with dev tools for it.

nice setup! I think I would go for a remote server instead of a local laptop in case I would opt for SSH’ing from the ipad. Thanks for suggesting Mosh !

Re: Play.js: The Node.js and React Native IDE for iPhone and iPad

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Is there something similar that would allow me to use one of these on iPad Pro: - A fully featured linux desktop with Visual Studio Code and a terminal - A sandboxed terminal with persistent storage - A text editor and a rust compiler - A text editor I could always ssh into my raspberry pi while at home, which is my second best solution. But, if anyone has some ideas/solutions in mind that require even a large bit of…

I've just found a solution that works pretty nicely for me: Coda. It has an integrated SSH terminal, it has FTPS and uploads changes to files on save and it has support for many languages (don't know about rust though). It also saves your terminals and open files within each project so you can easily switch around.

Coda on iPad + Raspberry Pi (or an old Mac mini) make a pretty nice dev environment.

If you are more of a VIM guy, something like Terminus works well too.

Re: Play.js: The Node.js and React Native IDE for iPhone and iPad

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How can you use DeX and commute?

Theoretically you could use a portable HDMI screen and a battery pack, but that's quite clunky. The Galaxy Tab S4 supports DeX right on the tablet AFAIK.

The Tab s4 and s5e both have DeX mode on screen and can be proto-laptops. Also there exist lapdock implementions by favorite being the HP Lapdock which even supports wireless pairing (Although DeX still needs to enable wireless projection mode)
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