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This article is incredibly light on actual details. JS development, as long as you aren't using webpack or some other nodejs-based toolchain, is awesome on an
by sheetjs 8y ago
This article is incredibly light on actual details.
JS development, as long as you aren't using webpack or some other nodejs-based toolchain, is awesome on an iPad Pro. Many developer-oriented apps ship with WebDAV servers which can serve JS scripts. And thanks to the iOS 11 Files app, you can even test sites that involve the HTML5 File API.
For example, doing some work on a VBA-related tool on a plane was surprisingly productive: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dc9JZBMUwAAg2BY.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dc9JZBMUwAAg2BY.jpg
More than anything else, I felt more productive on the iPad than on my MBP because the constraints ensured there was no visible chat application or time wasting website screen.
P.S.: the VSCode sidebar never really made sense until I saw it executed in the Kodex app: https://kodex.space/ https://kodex.space/ -- the ability to jump down to a particular place in the file with a single touch is mindblowing and immediately boosted productivity when dealing with huge scripts.
- tambourine_man 8y agoCan you elaborate on this workflow? Got me interested. What editor is that? Can iOS Host a server (localhost)?
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- filleduchaos 8y agoIt would be a rather poor OS indeed if it couldn't host a server.
- tambourine_man 8y agoAFAIK, iOS can't fork(), so… Edit: it obviously can, I mean AppStore Apps aren't allowed to.
- princekolt 8y agoYou don't need to fork to a separate process to run a web server.
- mattkevan 8y agoI wrote my personal website on an iPad Pro. Worked well. I work on it while commuting on the Tube, where an iPad is less ostentatious than a laptop. It’s built with Jekyll, so I pull the latest changes before leaving the house and then push once arriving at work. Netlify runs the build and the changes go live. I use Working Copy for Git plus the built-in editor is okay, IA Writer for Markdown, Autodesk Graphic for vectors and Affinity Photo for images. It’s actually possible to run a full Django dev environment, including localhost in Safari, using Pythonista and StaSH (shell for Pythonista). It’s genuinely amazing what it can do.
- woolvalley 8y agoSo you used a physical keyboard or just tapped on the tablet screen keyboard?
- mattkevan 8y agoBoth. For a long time I used the on-screen keyboard, but recently got a cheap keyboard case.
- mrtksn 8y ago>the ability to jump down to a particular place in the file with a single touch is mindblowing and immediately boosted productivity when dealing with huge scripts. Isn't that an argument to use a touchscreen laptop?
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago> For example, doing some work on a VBA-related tool on a plane was surprisingly productive: That's interesting! How do you test VBA in the iPad?