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If you open the dev tools in your browser there's a full sandbox environment right there, not to mention the load of other sites available. I don't see why spec
by tidenly 6y ago
If you open the dev tools in your browser there's a full sandbox environment right there, not to mention the load of other sites available. I don't see why specifically Node should be installed.
- chubot 6y agoI just wrote a bunch of code inside Chrome devtools to do some web scraping. It works pretty well, with a REPL, (overly aggressive) autocomplete, and good integration with the DOM, but it's also limited. Saving and loading .js files uses a very non-standard flow. The editor is OK but I think basic operations like "find across files" are missing. It's very "canned" and not customizable. In other words, it feels more like a debugging environment than a programming environment, which I think is basically what they were going for.
- onion2k 6y agoNot only that, but if you set up Workspaces in Chrome (https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/workspaces https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/work...) you can edit files stored on your computer using devtools, making it even more like an IDE.
- shawnz 6y agoAgreed, the much stronger counterargument is that all major browsers already have JS development environments built in! I am curious to hear why this is not suitable for the author.