Cloud9 IDE

When I was researching for my BeagleBone Black I saw in material two things I had read about earlier: Cloud9 IDE and node.js.

Cloud9 IDE is an online development environment for Javascript and Node.js applications as well as HTML, CSS, PHP, Java, Ruby and 23 other languages. It promises that you can write, run, and debug your code with a powerful and flexible cloud IDE. You can collaborate on your workspaces publicly, or keep them private. The system is based on part that runs on cloud and your user interface that runs on your web browser, so your code is online and accessible from anywhere. The full service costs money, but they also offer a free plan. The free plan is designed for those who want to get started coding quickly on public, open-source projects that you want to share.

I started playing with the free plan to get the idea of the service. It felt pretty good. There was a nice set of examples to start out. The editor seemed to work well. The workspace system seemed to work well. I can edit the code on the service and run it there.

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In matter of few minutes I could select suitable code examples, view the source code and run then in the server (and get the output on web browser). Looks promising. One nice feature is that the system seems to remember where exactly my workspace was when session ends, and I can continue from it when I log in next time.

1 Comment

  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
    Amazon’s AWS buys Cloud9 to add more development tools to its web services stack — Amazon Web Services has made an acquisition to continue building out the services that it offers around and on its cloud storage platform. It has bought Cloud9, a San Francisco-based startup that has built …

    Amazon’s AWS buys Cloud9 to add more development tools to its web services stack
    https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/14/amazons-aws-buys-cloud9-to-add-more-development-tools-to-its-web-services-stack/

    Amazon Web Services has made an acquisition to continue building out the services that it offers around and on its cloud storage platform. It has bought Cloud9, a San Francisco-based startup that has built an integrated development environment (IDE) for web and mobile developers to collaborate together.

    The news was made public by Cloud9 itself in a statement on its site, which also says that the company will continue to offer its existing service while it also works on building new tools for AWS.

    Great News!
    https://c9.io/blog/great-news/

    We’re excited to let you, our users and customers, be among the first to learn that we have been acquired by Amazon! We will be joining the Amazon Web Services family, and we’re looking forward to working together on terrific customer offerings for the future.

    Happy coding!

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