When comparing StackHive vs PaizaCloud IDE, the Slant community recommends PaizaCloud IDE for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud IDEs?” PaizaCloud IDE is ranked 9th while StackHive is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose PaizaCloud IDE is:
PaizaCloud launches new development environment server just in 3 seconds. So, you can casually create or destroy server.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Supports Bootstrap
StackHive supports Bootstrap 2 & 3, and provides a tutorial on using Bootstrap with Stackhive.
Pro Free plan available
There is a free plan available for trying out the IDE. It allows you 3 projects and 2 pages per project.
Pro Feature-rich for front end web development
Pro 3 seconds instant launch
PaizaCloud launches new development environment server just in 3 seconds. So, you can casually create or destroy server.
Pro 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.
Pro HTTP/HTTPS access to any ports
PaizaCloud allow you to access almost all ports for HTTP/HTTPs access.
Pro No credit card required
No credit card is required for FREE plan.
Pro Internationalization
PaizaCloud's Editor or Terminal fully support non-ASCII languages like Japanese, Chinese, European languages.
Pro 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.
Pro Terminal with root
In PaizaCloud, you can sudo to root. So, you can install packages, or run service freely.
Pro Supports Jupyter notebook
PaizaCloud has Jupyter Notebook support with Python libraries like NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, or matplotlib built-in.
Pro 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.
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.