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Falling in love again

Matthew Watkins on November 27, 2018

Once upon a time, back in school, I discovered Cloud 9. A website that gives you an IDE in your web browser? And root terminal access to your very ...
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Ben Halpern

I've really been interested in getting DEV running in one of these. I haven't gotten around to making the full attempt yet.

If anyone is interested in attempting to run our codebase in a cloud IDE, Coder or otherwise, I'd love to see the results:

github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to

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K

I read codesandbox ia based on VSCode.

I played around with C9 back before the AWS integration and didn't find it very appealing, but on the other hand I never had a Chromebook.

With AWS integration it finally got some use for me, because now I can work on a real EC2, compile stuff that direcly can run on Lambda and I get preconfigured CLI.

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Carter Bryden

I've been using cloud9 for years now and I loved it before the integration to AWS. This looks like an awesome option, but I really, really want to be able to pay for more containers. Let me create container templates and clone them and I'll be in dev heaven. I don't want my dozens of projects all on one container.

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Matthew Watkins

Yeah, I was saddened when Cloud 9 started tightening its leash on how many workspaces individuals could create and requiring a credit card to register for an account. Still, it got me through my college :)

Currently, it looks like Coder.com supports only one container per account, with paid options to increase the resources available, but still to that one container. However, I noticed when I was playing around and resetting my container the other day and clicked reset twice too fast, there was an error thrown saying my "organization" had reached the limit for the number of containers (1).

I don't want to get anyone's hopes up, but that sounds like they're adding organization/team support and the ability to pay for more containers in the near future. Since they're still in the alpha v0.2 phase, I'll be surprised if they don't add that sooner rather than later.

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Guayo Mena

Man, this really got me thinking. Maybe you can even use a phone, with a bluetooth keyboard and a smart tv as a coding computer. That could be useful. At least as a backup setup

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Cheston

How does coder handle full stack application development? like LAMP, MEAN/MERN?
Im really attracted to the Chromebook workstation for personal projects!

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Matthew Watkins

It handles them just like running a Linux terminal with VS Code. Because you're running a Linux terminal with VS Code :)

If your question is how do you do web applications, as long as what your working on can serve requests at 0.0.0.0, the Coder.com extension will create an internal URL for your account where you can access the site while the container is active (very similar to Cloud 9, except that Coder chooses the internal URL for you instead of being based solely on your username and project name).