Cloud IDE Test #2 - codeanywhere

https://codeanywhere.com

A few things are immediately apparent:

  • codeanywhere has much later versions of node and npm as a default
  • codeanywhere expects you to manually save (CTL+S) your most recent changes to a file whereas codeenvy is autosave almost as you are typing the changes
  • codeanywhere’s SSH terminal runs as a additional tab in the IDE (instead of a window down the bottom) thus showing way more terminal history at a glance
  • codeanywhere’s IDE feels a little more modern
  • codeanywhere’s container doesn’t automatically shut itself down after a period of inactivity like codeenvy does. Though in fairness, restarting the codeenvy doesnt take too long and it does have “keep active” option.

AND … EEEK!!! …. as the codeanywhere docs state, commiting / pushing is all done via the CLI. For a simple post thats not a biggie, but it you want to selectively stage changes, thats a pain. On the flip side there were Auth issues when doing a push for the first time. It just sailed through.

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cabox@site:~/workspace$ node --version
v10.15.0
cabox@site:~/workspace$ npm --version
6.4.1