If you need a complete IDE on a chromebook, you might check out Cloud9[0], which seems to have been acquired by Amazon. It gives you a decent editor and a small

If you need a complete IDE on a chromebook, you might check out Cloud9[0], which seems to have been acquired by Amazon. It gives you a decent editor and a small VM as a workspace, and the nice thing is that you can close the browser window and do something else, and the workspace will be exactly as you left it when you return, including any running terminal commands. I used C9 for a while before discovering Crouton[1] and subsequently GalliumOS[2], and it's still a pretty credible alternative to local development. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ [1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton [2] https://galliumos.org/ https://galliumos.org/ (I have no affiliation with any companies or projects mentioned.)