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AWS Cloud 9
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SourceLair
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Codeanywhere
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PaizaCloud IDE
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AWS Cloud 9

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Andris Pelcbergs
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Offline editing 

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By installing and running a client application that syncs the local file system and cloud storage Cloud9 can be run locally. Great alternative for situations when the Internet connection is unreliable.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Capable editor 

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Cloud9 uses their own editor called ACE. Besides the basics, it covers most important advanced code editor features such as code folding, converting cases, auto-completion, code analysis and refactoring, regex search and offers easy access to relevant documentation. It also gives access to the CL...
Andris Pelcbergs
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Full terminal access 

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Cloud9 gives full terminal access to home directory. In their hosted Linux Ubuntu environment it has sudo powers. No UNIX commands have been blocked - npm, ifconfig, chmod, chown, tar, etc work. All commands can be accessed and any package can be installed. And if the terminal is used when using R...
Andris Pelcbergs
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Can be hosted on own server

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Since Cloud9 is an open source project with source code available on GitHub, it can be run as a self-hosted solution on own hardware and behind a firewall.
Laura Kyle
Endi Sukaj
JustDev Inc
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Geared towards collaboration

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An important feature of Cloud9 is the real-time collaboration ability. It allows pairing programs or perform code reviews really easily as well as simultaneously text chat.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Git & Mercurial support 

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Git and hg commands can be run in the command-line, the same way as in a local terminal. There are also built-in add-on services for GitHub, BitBucket and GitLab.
Endi Sukaj
Thorsummoner0
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Hotkey presets to match popular desktop editors

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Whatever input style you're familiar with, good chance that knot style works mostly well on C9
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

Debugging with breakpoints for NodeJS server side JavaScript 

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Breakpoints allow specifying a stopping points in the execution of the application. When these breakpoints are hit, the application will stop executing and give the ability to examine data such as local variables, run commands and control the execution flow of the application.
Endi Sukaj
Thorsummoner0
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Full development environment, including local Database

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A C9 project is not just the code, but a VM giving developers nearly unrestricted access to local services and processing.
Laura Kyle
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Provides a simple way to deploy apps

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Cloud9 allows quickly deploying apps via CLI. There are instructions on how to deploy to Azure, CloudFoundry, OpenShift, NodeJitsu, Modulus and Heroku. For example, all hosted environments have Heroku's toolbelt installed by default so all heroku commands are available from the get-go.
Laura Kyle
Top Pro

Package manager

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Similar to package managers for the desktop, Cloud9 also includes their own package manager, c9pm, which allows adding new software from a list of available utilities. Apt-get can be used in the project's workspace terminal to install/update/upgrade software. Composer, Bower or any other utili...
Andris Pelcbergs
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Lacks subdomain options 

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Building an app that needs subdomains is impossible.
Endi Sukaj
Top Con

The self-hosted version is hard to set up

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The self-hosted open source version does not come pre-configured and it does not work out of the box. Setting it up on a local server is rather hard.
Endi Sukaj
Thorsummoner0
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Lots of features leave this IDE heavy weight

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Performance of the VM and the IDE/GUI to that VM are mostly solid, but don't expect the performance of a desktop IDE on bare metal. Regex find replace is a pain point, as are large files and many hotkey operations on large files.
Endi Sukaj
Thorsummoner0
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Poor copy to clipboard support (due to browser restrictions)

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Attempting to copy text from ide to system clipboard will make a modal pop-up which must then be selected and copied again. Paste should work fine.
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Con

Very little specs on free plan 

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Only 512MB ram and 3GB disk.
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SourceLair

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Paris
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Powerful JavaScript auto-complete

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Provides both file-wide and cross-package auto complete among JavaScript files (supports also require.js and CommonJS modules) in both browser and Node, function documentation fetching, function argument hinting.
Paris
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Heroku integration for JavaScript projects

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Streamlined deployment setup and Heroku-compatible runtime for Node.js based web applications.
Paris
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Customizable, real-time error reporting

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Customizing the error reporting of your project in SourceLair can happen through the ".jshintrc" file in the root directory of the project
Paris
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GitHub integration

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Clone your repositories from GitHub with a single click
Paris
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React and JSX supoprt

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SourceLair supports developing React applications using JSX, out of the box.
Paris
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Node.js support

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Out of the box development of Node.js web applications.
Paris
Top Pro

HTTPS public URLs

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All public URLs for web projects in SourceLair are HTTPS enabled.
Paris
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Bower integration

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Bower integrates into SourceLair's Command Palette
Paris
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Npm integration

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SourceLair integrates with npm, parses the package.json file and populates it to the Command Palette
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Codeanywhere

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Endi Sukaj
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Integration with DigitalOcean

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CodeAnywhere recently partnered up with DigitalOcean. Now users can manage, spin up and provision DigitalOcean droplets all from the CodeAnywhere IDE. This is a great addition for both products, combining the power of an affordable host with the portability and power of CodeAnywhere IDE.
Endi Sukaj
Top Pro

Multiple devboxes

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DevBoxes are saveable, fully customizable development environments that run on either Open VZ or Docker and each has a dedicated amount of memory and disk space. Multiple devboxes can be run at the same time.
Endi Sukaj
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Good editor

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Supports multiple cursors. Has code completion for JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS and linting for JavaScript and CSS.
Endi Sukaj
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SFTP access

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Allows connecting code via FTP, SFTP.
Endi Sukaj
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Full terminal access

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CodeAnywhere gives users full terminal access.
Endi Sukaj
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Github integration

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Integrates with Github and allows logging in with your Github account.
Endi Sukaj
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Unlimited revisions

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Each action performed on any file from any resource will be saved forever.
Endi Sukaj
Top Pro

Dropbox and Google Drive support

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Codeanywhere allows connecting to a Dropbox or a Google Drive account and pull development files from there making it easy to sync development files across devices.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Allows inviting collaborators with a link 

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Codeanywhere has a feature called Share Links, that allows users to collaborate with others on their projects in real-time by simply sharing a link to their work.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Has mobile apps for all major mobile OSs 

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Codeanywhere has apps for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows and Blackberry.
Andris Pelcbergs
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BitBucket Integration 

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Integrates with BitBucket and allows logging in with your BitBucket account. It's possible to launch Codeanywhere from within BitBucket's repo by adding Codeanywhere integration as an add-on.
Endi Sukaj
Top Con

SSH Port will be different each time you start your DevBox

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Only for Always on DevBoxes will SSH ports remain static.
Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Con

Web editor on iPad is severely lacking

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Codeanywhere relies on right click for major actions but doesn't support this interaction on iPad. Selecting listed Dev box URLs to access site is also unworkable in practice. iPad app allows the actions but has very limited set of Dev box controls.
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PaizaCloud IDE

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Tsuneo Yoshioka
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HTTP/HTTPS access to any ports

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PaizaCloud allow you to access almost all ports for HTTP/HTTPs access.
Tsuneo Yoshioka
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Supports Jupyter notebook

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PaizaCloud has Jupyter Notebook support with Python libraries like NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, or matplotlib built-in.
Tsuneo Yoshioka
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Terminal with root

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In PaizaCloud, you can sudo to root. So, you can install packages, or run service freely.
Tsuneo Yoshioka
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Google Home / Google Assistant development in the browser

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As PaizaCloud runs in the cloud, you can develop and run the Google Home / Google Assistant application, without deploying to another server.
Tsuneo Yoshioka
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No credit card required

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No credit card is required for FREE plan.
Tsuneo Yoshioka
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Extensible PaizaCloud app

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PaizaCloud provides standard application like File manager, Editor, Terminal. But, PaizaCloud also provides the possibility to add or even create new App-for-PaizaCloud using HTML/CSS.
Tsuneo Yoshioka
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Internationalization

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PaizaCloud's Editor or Terminal fully support non-ASCII languages like Japanese, Chinese, European languages.
Tsuneo Yoshioka
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Floating window manager

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PaizaCloud provides Floating window manager like Windows or Mac by default. It makes the environment more flexible. PaizaCloud also provides Tab window mode when you want to use the full screen for one purpose.
Know any negative aspects of this option?
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Koding

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Andris Pelcbergs
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Free VM with root 

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Anyone can get a free virtual machine (VM) with Ubuntu that has root access, apt-get, and many commonly used web tools. (most services offer this) The virtual machine shuts down after the user has been logged out for 60 minutes, but the state is preserved. Pro plans get an always-on VM.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Built-in package manager 

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The Koding Package Manager (a successor to Apps) is a command line tool for installing packages like nginx, Redis, VNC, Wordpress and many others. It consists of officially supported and user-built packages.
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

Capable editor 

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Koding uses the Ace editor that's developed by Cloud9. Besides the basics, it covers most important advanced code editor features such as code folding, converting cases, auto-completion, code analysis and refactoring, regex search and offers easy access to relevant documentation. It also gives...
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Con

Poor uptime 

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Server are regularly either down for maintenance or generally available, because they're used by all other users.
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Con

Bad performance and latency issues 

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Koding IDE can be uncomfortably unresponsive at times even when taken into consideration that it's a cloud-based IDE.
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