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 Digita

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.