When comparing GitLab Snippets vs Codeit, the Slant community recommends GitLab Snippets for most people. In the question“What is the best code-snippets manager?” GitLab Snippets is ranked 4th while Codeit is ranked 24th.
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Pros
Pro Self hostable
Pro Libre/open source
Included in GitLab CE (community edition)
Pro Free and open source
Source code is available on Github.
Pro Supports a lot of languages
C, C++, C#, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Lua, LaTex, Python, Ruby, SQL and more.
Pro Easy to setup
Codeit is really quick to load and pretty simple in terms of UI, so setup is a minute max. It's a web app, so it weighs nothing on your phone too.
Pro Live view
If you're editing a site and want to see how it looks, you can swipe up from the bottom edge and see it live, without any hosting, you can share these previews as well.
Pro Consistency
Codeit is available on Windows and macOS/iOS as well as Linux and Android, and looks the same on all platforms. The editor is pretty simple and you don't have to get used to new code editors every time you swap platforms.
Pro Supports 200 languages
Cons
Con Bad support for searching for snippets
Con No Versioning
Con No Tagging
Con No tree / category: all Snippets are in the project root
Con Poor Language Syntax Highlighting
Con No multiple accounts
It would be useful to add more than one Git host account to Codeit.