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It's a bit clunky, but you can pull up Chrome Developer Tools on a ChromeOS device, create a workspace in Downloads, and with a bit of fiddling persuade DevTool
by david-given 10y ago
It's a bit clunky, but you can pull up Chrome Developer Tools on a ChromeOS device, create a workspace in Downloads, and with a bit of fiddling persuade DevTools to map the files directly to disk. Now you can use DevTools as a pretty good HTML/JS/CSS IDE with debugger integration, editing the files directly in the DevTools window with proper syntax highlighting etc.
AFAIK there isn't any way to get VCS integration (but I have a faint memory that DevTools extensions are possible?), but it's a great deal better than nothing.
...and, of course, if you dev unlock the device, you can install Crotoun and get a full Debian system side-by-side with ChromeOS. Then you can do what you like.
- wastedhours 10y agoI managed to get a setup going like that, with Caret and a mapped SFTP folder. Used it for a little while, but really wasn't a fun experience, and if I'm honest, neither was installing Linux. I'm guessing their vision is for a Cloud9 style future, but since we're not really there yet for most things, native development would be awesome.
- daypack 10y agoChrome Canary has improved workspace support, diffs, nodejs debugging and more editor improvements that make Dev Tools hard to beat as a HTML/JS/CSS IDE. See "Debugging The Web" session from the recent Dev Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF1luRD4Qmk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF1luRD4Qmk