Slant community chat on Discourse| 4 Recommended Products | Recommendations | Git | Auto Complete | Bracket Matching |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 Cloud9· · · | 6 | 1 | yes | yes | yes |
| #2 Codeanywhere· · · | 2 | 0 | yes | yes | yes |
| #3 SourceLair· · · | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| #4 Koding· · · | 0 | 0 | – | – | – |
Pro Offline editing
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.
Pro Capable editor
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...
Pro Full terminal access
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...
Con The self-hosted version is hard to set up
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.
Con Poor copy to clipboard support (due to browser restrictions)
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.
Con Lots of features leave this IDE heavy weight
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.
Pro Allows inviting collaborators with a link
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.
Pro Has mobile apps for all major mobile OSs
Codeanywhere has apps for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows and Blackberry.
Con SSH Port will be different each time you start your DevBox
Only for Always on DevBoxes will SSH ports remain static.
Con Web editor on iPad is severely lacking
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.
Pro Powerful JavaScript auto-complete
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.
Pro Heroku integration for JavaScript projects
Streamlined deployment setup and Heroku-compatible runtime for Node.js based web applications.
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Pro Free VM with root
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.
Pro Built-in package manager
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.
Con Poor uptime
Server are regularly either down for maintenance or generally available, because they're used by all other users.
Con Bad performance and latency issues
Koding IDE can be uncomfortably unresponsive at times even when taken into consideration that it's a cloud-based IDE.
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