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Cloud9 IDE

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Developer(s)
  
Cloud9 IDE, Inc

Platform
  
Web

Website
  
c9.io

Written in
  
JavaScript

Type
  
IDE

Cloud9 IDE

License
  
v3 - Freeware, Non-commercial License v2 - GNU GPL v3

Cloud9 IDE is an online integrated development environment, published as open source from version 3.0. It supports hundreds of programming languages, including C, C++, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, JavaScript with Node.js, and Go. It enables developers to get started with coding immediately with pre-configured workspaces, collaborate with their peers with collaborative coding features, and web development features like live preview and browser compatibility testing.

Contents

It is written almost entirely in JavaScript, and uses Node.js on the back-end. The editor component uses Ace. As of July 2014, it uses Docker containers for its workspaces, and is hosted on Google Compute Engine.

As per their official blog , Cloud9 had been acquired by Amazon in July 2016. Cloud9 IDE, Inc. is the company that actively maintains Cloud9 IDE. The company has offices in San Francisco and Amsterdam.

Features

  • Built-in terminal, with npm and basic Unix commands
  • Code completion for snippets and identifiers
  • Multiple cursors for simultaneous editing
  • Real-time language analysis for JavaScript (marking common JavaScript pitfalls)
  • Variable/function name refactoring for JavaScript
  • Parenthesis, bracket, and quote character matching
  • Line numbers, warnings, and errors in the gutter
  • Debugger
  • Tabbed file management
  • Themes
  • Customizable key-bindings, including presets for Vim, Emacs, and Sublime Text
  • Built in Image Editor
  • Code reformatting via JSBeautify and CSSLint
  • Ability to drag-and-drop files into your project
  • Support for the following code repositories:
  • GitHub
  • Bitbucket
  • Mercurial repositories
  • Git repositories
  • FTP servers
  • Support for deployment to:
  • Heroku
  • Joyent
  • Openshift
  • Windows Azure
  • Google App Engine
  • SFTP/FTP
  • Support for public and private projects
  • Plug-in support
  • Syntax highlighting for the following languages: C#, C/C++, Clojure, CoffeeScript, ColdFusion, CSS, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, LaTeX, Lua, Markdown, OCaml, PHP, Perl, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, Scala, SCSS, SQL, Textile, X(HTML), XML

    • About

    Founded in 2010, and based in San Francisco and Amsterdam, Cloud9 IDE was a privately held company. Cloud9 IDE raised $5.5 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners and product development software company Atlassian Software.

    On July 14, 2016, Cloud9 announced that it had been acquired by Amazon.com.

    Usage

    Cloud9 is the native IDE for the BeagleBone Black single board computer, which is primarily programmed in an extension of node.js called Bonescript.

    References

    Cloud9 IDE Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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