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I'm a big fan of Cloud9. Since you can use Cloud9 on your own hardware pretty easily you're not forced to treat it as a part-time-IDE-for-X you can just use it

I'm a big fan of Cloud9. Since you can use Cloud9 on your own hardware pretty easily you're not forced to treat it as a part-time-IDE-for-X you can just use it for everything (it supports dozens of languages) and being online or locally hosted becomes just an irrelevant detail. I've used it for web and android projects. I dislike the proprietary ones, I don't think proprietary developer tools should be supported anymore tbh, but they force you to use them only-for-x and that means you're looking at alternatives every other time too!

beat 10y ago
Part of my thinking here is to get a dev environment that is 100% independent of my laptop - I don't need local files, or local configuration. Currently, I'm using Vagrant on a Mac, and that works well, but it's also wedded to a computer I'd like to put into semi-retirement, and I don't want to spend a fortune on a new one. The idea of just using cheap Chromebooks for dev sounds very appealing.
- benologist 10y ago
  I explored moving to Chrome, I think it's almost ready. The Chromebox I bought didn't end up included for Android app support so I installed Cloud9 via Crouton and scripted that installation here: https://github.com/benlowry/chromeos-dev-setup https://github.com/benlowry/chromeos-dev-setup.
- didgeoridoo 10y ago
  Cloud9 has been a delight so far. It doesn't require local files — parent was just saying that you can use it as an IDE on your own arbitrary box (e.g. a DigitalOcean droplet), but that doesn't stop you from using the default option of a Cloud9-provided Ubuntu container. Another big win with C9 is "collaborative mode", which lets you pair with someone remotely, each with their own cursor in the same file. I've been using that a lot to integrate closely with a front-end developer who is taking care of the views while I simultaneously write the backend logic.
genericacct 10y ago
I'm also a big c9 fan. On small systems I've also used Codiad which can be easier on RAM if you're running apache.
moepstar 10y ago
>>>Since you can use Cloud9 on your own hardware pretty easily Can you provide me with a link or two on how to do that? The last time i looked, i think it was "just" their IDE on Github (or other) with next to no documentation on how to set up all the other bits and pieces - hopefully this has changed and i can make the whole thing work the same as if i would give them my money? :)
- benologist 10y ago
  It used to be messy but now it's largely just: git clone git://github.com/c9/core.git c9sdk cd c9sdk scripts/install-sdk.sh https://github.com/c9/core https://github.com/c9/core
  - moepstar 10y ago
    Thank you, just tried it and can confirm it is really that easy :)

beat 10y ago

Part of my thinking here is to get a dev environment that is 100% independent of my laptop - I don't need local files, or local configuration. Currently, I'm using Vagrant on a Mac, and that works well, but it's also wedded to a computer I'd like to put into semi-retirement, and I don't want to spend a fortune on a new one. The idea of just using cheap Chromebooks for dev sounds very appealing.

benologist 10y ago
I explored moving to Chrome, I think it's almost ready. The Chromebox I bought didn't end up included for Android app support so I installed Cloud9 via Crouton and scripted that installation here: https://github.com/benlowry/chromeos-dev-setup https://github.com/benlowry/chromeos-dev-setup.
didgeoridoo 10y ago
Cloud9 has been a delight so far. It doesn't require local files — parent was just saying that you can use it as an IDE on your own arbitrary box (e.g. a DigitalOcean droplet), but that doesn't stop you from using the default option of a Cloud9-provided Ubuntu container. Another big win with C9 is "collaborative mode", which lets you pair with someone remotely, each with their own cursor in the same file. I've been using that a lot to integrate closely with a front-end developer who is taking care of the views while I simultaneously write the backend logic.

genericacct 10y ago

I'm also a big c9 fan. On small systems I've also used Codiad which can be easier on RAM if you're running apache.

moepstar 10y ago

>>>Since you can use Cloud9 on your own hardware pretty easily Can you provide me with a link or two on how to do that? The last time i looked, i think it was "just" their IDE on Github (or other) with next to no documentation on how to set up all the other bits and pieces - hopefully this has changed and i can make the whole thing work the same as if i would give them my money? :)

benologist 10y ago
It used to be messy but now it's largely just: git clone git://github.com/c9/core.git c9sdk cd c9sdk scripts/install-sdk.sh https://github.com/c9/core https://github.com/c9/core
- moepstar 10y ago
  Thank you, just tried it and can confirm it is really that easy :)