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What are the best cloud IDEs for JavaScript?

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6 Options Considered

Best cloud IDEs for JavaScript	Price	Auto Complete	Multi Language Support
-- AWS Cloud 9	-	yes	yes
-- SourceLair	-	Yes	Yes
-- Codeanywhere	-	yes	yes
-- PaizaCloud IDE	-	Yes	Yes
-- Koding	-	–	–

AWS Cloud 9

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Top 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. See More

Top Con

Lacks subdomain options

Building an app that needs subdomains is impossible. See More

Specs

Auto Complete:yes

Multi Language Support:yes

Bracket Matching:yes

Top 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 CLI, has support for Vim and Emacs keybindings, includes multiple cursors and zen coding mode that removes all distractions and allows focusing on code. See More

Top 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. See More

Top 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 Remote SSH feature it connects directly to the server and runs the commands on that server. See More

Top 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. See More

Top Pro

Can be hosted on own server

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. See More

Top 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. See More

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Geared towards collaboration

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. See More

Top Con

Very little specs on free plan

Only 512MB ram and 3GB disk. See More

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Git & Mercurial support

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. See More

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Hotkey presets to match popular desktop editors

Whatever input style you're familiar with, good chance that knot style works mostly well on C9 See More

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Debugging with breakpoints for NodeJS server side JavaScript

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. See More

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Full development environment, including local Database

A C9 project is not just the code, but a VM giving developers nearly unrestricted access to local services and processing. See More

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Provides a simple way to deploy apps

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. See More

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Package manager

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 utilities of choice can be installed to manage dependencies and packages. See More

SourceLair

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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. See More

Specs

Auto Complete:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

Bracket Matching:Yes

Top Pro

Heroku integration for JavaScript projects

Streamlined deployment setup and Heroku-compatible runtime for Node.js based web applications. See More

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Customizable, real-time error reporting

Customizing the error reporting of your project in SourceLair can happen through the ".jshintrc" file in the root directory of the project See More

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GitHub integration

Clone your repositories from GitHub with a single click See More

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React and JSX supoprt

SourceLair supports developing React applications using JSX, out of the box. See More

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Node.js support

Out of the box development of Node.js web applications. See More

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HTTPS public URLs

All public URLs for web projects in SourceLair are HTTPS enabled. See More

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Bower integration

Bower integrates into SourceLair's Command Palette See More

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Npm integration

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

Codeanywhere

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Integration with DigitalOcean

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. See More

Top Con

SSH Port will be different each time you start your DevBox

Only for Always on DevBoxes will SSH ports remain static. See More

Specs

Auto Complete:yes

Multi Language Support:yes

Bracket Matching:yes

Top Pro

Multiple devboxes

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. See More

Top 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. See More

Top Pro

Good editor

Supports multiple cursors. Has code completion for JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS and linting for JavaScript and CSS. See More

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SFTP access

Allows connecting code via FTP, SFTP. See More

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Full terminal access

CodeAnywhere gives users full terminal access. See More

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Github integration

Integrates with Github and allows logging in with your Github account. See More

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Unlimited revisions

Each action performed on any file from any resource will be saved forever. See More

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Dropbox and Google Drive support

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. See More

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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. See More

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Has mobile apps for all major mobile OSs

Codeanywhere has apps for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows and Blackberry. See More

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BitBucket Integration

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. See More

PaizaCloud IDE

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HTTP/HTTPS access to any ports

PaizaCloud allow you to access almost all ports for HTTP/HTTPs access. See More

Specs

Auto Complete:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

Bracket Matching:Yes

Top Pro

Supports Jupyter notebook

PaizaCloud has Jupyter Notebook support with Python libraries like NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, or matplotlib built-in. See More

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Terminal with root

In PaizaCloud, you can sudo to root. So, you can install packages, or run service freely. See More

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Google Home / Google Assistant development in the browser

As PaizaCloud runs in the cloud, you can develop and run the Google Home / Google Assistant application, without deploying to another server. See More

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No credit card required

No credit card is required for FREE plan. See More

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Extensible PaizaCloud app

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. See More

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Internationalization

PaizaCloud's Editor or Terminal fully support non-ASCII languages like Japanese, Chinese, European languages. See More

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Floating window manager

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. See More

Koding

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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. See More

Top Con

Poor uptime

Server are regularly either down for maintenance or generally available, because they're used by all other users. See More

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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. See More

Top 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. See More

Top Pro

Capable editor

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 access to the CLI, has support for Vim and Emacs keybindings, includes multiple cursors and zen coding mode that removes all distractions and allows focusing on code. See More

Goorm IDE

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Specs

Auto Complete:yes

Multi Language Support:yes (over 12)

Integrated Debugger:yes

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