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An iPad Pro has been my primary work device for nearly 20months now. I recommend it any professional that doesn’t need to write code.
by garrickvanburen 7y ago
An iPad Pro has been my primary work device for nearly 20months now. I recommend it any professional that doesn’t need to write code.
- gregjor 7y agoAn iPad is fine for writing code, but not capable of compiling/running code. For web development specifically you can't run a real web app on it. iOS Safari doesn't have the inspector/debugger so you can't use it much for debugging/experimenting with web pages. If iOS Safari had the inspector/debugger, or just inspector with live JS console, I would almost never need to use my laptop (which is just Chromebook, but runs full Chrome).
- derefr 7y ago> An iPad is fine for writing code, but not capable of compiling/running code. I mean, hardware-wise, it's totally capable; it's got a pretty powerful CPU in it. It's just the App Store publishing policies that don't want to cooperate. But there's nothing fundamentally stopping someone from creating a Crouton-like "chroot in a box" environment and publishing it as an XCode project; and nothing stopping you from taking said XCode project and deploying it to your iPad using development provisioning.
- lil1t 7y agoThere are web inspector apps on the App Store. I use Inspect Browser [1] myself for that purpose. [1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inspect-browser/id1203594958 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inspect-browser/id1203594958
- gregjor 7y agoI use that. It has a JS console but it doesn't seem to have access to JS on the page like the Chrome console does. If I had Chrome or Safari web developer tools I would only have the clunky text selection to complain about, and I can live with that.