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StackHive vs Codepen

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When comparing StackHive vs Codepen, the Slant community recommends Codepen for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud IDEs?” Codepen is ranked 17th while StackHive is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose Codepen is:

CodePen makes it really easy to export code as a zip or Github Gist.

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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
Easily export your pen

CodePen makes it really easy to export code as a zip or Github Gist.

Pro
Real time output

Pro
Lots of support for frameworks and preprocessors

CodePen has an impressive amount of support for preprocessors (such as Jade, Haml, Slim, Sass, Less, Stylus, Coffeescript and PostCSS). There is also plenty of frameworks and libraries to pick from (Foundation, Bootstrap, Angular, D3, Backbone, Ember etc.).

Pro
Great display/profile page

The codepen profile page allows you to display all of your public pens, and control which order you want them to be viewed in. This is great for showing off your work to possible employers, other devs etc..

Pro
Easily fork pens

To fork a pen only requires clicking one button, and you'll be able to modify the pen on your own account.

Pro
Great community pens

You can search through other pens, either by keyword or popular, picked or recent.

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Cons

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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.