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StackHive vs Codiad

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When comparing StackHive vs Codiad, the Slant community recommends StackHive for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud IDEs?” StackHive is ranked 20th while Codiad is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose StackHive is:

StackHive supports Bootstrap 2 & 3, and provides a [tutorial](http://stackhive.com/tutorial?t=Get-Started%7CBeginner&a=Twitter-Bootstrap) on using Bootstrap with Stackhive.

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Pros

Pro
Supports Bootstrap

StackHive supports Bootstrap 2 & 3, and provides a tutorial on using Bootstrap with Stackhive.

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Free plan available

There is a free plan available for trying out the IDE. It allows you 3 projects and 2 pages per project.

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Feature-rich for front end web development

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Open source

You can run Codiad on your server to allow you and your team to edit files.
Simplest to run may be using a Docker image like linuxserver/codiad.

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Easy to self-host: Only requires PHP

It only requires PHP 5+ and Nginx or Apache. No database is required. This makes it really easy to install on many servers include shared hosting.

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Multi-line edit

Allows to edit multiple things are once by having multiple cursors like Sublime Text.

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Has many easily installable plugins

Many plugins exist, from Terminal, Git to Collaboration and Emmet... Plugins can be installed by using the web interface, or by manually extracting files to the right directory.

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Simple and easily managable GUI

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Cons

Con
Very similar to Webflow

Many developers and designers have called StackHive a poorly executed Webflow knock off. Though StackHive currently offers more features than Webflow, it has much less of a polished feel, and can be buggy and slow at times.

You can see a side-by-side comparison of the UI here.

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Terminal runs as same user for everyone

No matter who is the logged in user, the Terminal plugin runs commands as the PHP user. This also affects the Git plugin in that there is a single SSH key for all users using your Codiad instance.

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Full of small bugs

There are plenty of various issues and bug that may either be due to your setup and the UI will not report them, or due to bugs in the code; I'm including common plugins here as well (just naming a few: search files and in files may report nothing if it had an error, commands stderr not printed, marketplace not showing items, search in market place showing no results, Git escaping ( by \( in the commit message for no good reason...). Those are generally small but together it makes the product feel flawed.

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Currently no search and replace in multiple files

There is a search in multiple files, and search & replace in current file, but not something to perform a search & replace in multiple files.

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Terminal doesn't TTY

The terminal plugin for Codiad allows users to type some commands and see the outputs, but not interactive input is supported (i.e. stdin is closed). Meaning you cannot run Vim, Tmux or anything requiring user inputs.