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Does a cloud IDE work well with a flaky network connection? Any time I see a network-always-on browser-based service, I'm only interested in it if I can run of
by jjnoakes 10y ago
Does a cloud IDE work well with a flaky network connection?
Any time I see a network-always-on browser-based service, I'm only interested in it if I can run offline and synchronize my state in the background.
Which is exactly what I do. I use a local editor on different machines. I sync my projects (git). I get builds and tests farmed out for me automatically (CI).
I'm just not dead in the water if I'm on a train, or a plane, or in a car, or my network dies, etc.
- tedmiston 10y agoI haven't tried running C9 in a connection that intermittent or totally offline, but it does work well for hopping on/off across networks without losing local state in the browser.
- jjnoakes 10y agoWhile offline, can you do anything useful though? Or do you just have to wait to come back online somewhere else?
- tedmiston 10y agoJust tried C9 again -- You can change text in open files, but you can't open new files (doesn't seem to cache everything) and I couldn't refresh the browser view of my web app. To be fair, my app pulls some assets from CDNs, but if C9 gave me cached versions or just failed to load them I could have kept working. I'd say at this point, fully offline is too limited... at least if your use case involves many files and building web apps.