Cloud9 combines a powerful online code editor with a full Ubuntu workspace in the cloud. Workspaces are powered by Docker Ubuntu containers that give you full freedom over your environment, including sudo rights.
Features of the Code Editor include:
- Built-in terminal, with npm and basic Unix commands.
- Language tools such as code completion for snippets and identifiers.
- 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 – set breakpoints, step over and through, and inspect variables of any JS/Node.js app.
- Tabbed file management.
- Themes – 30+ themes and color schemes are available.
- Customizable key-bindings, including presets for Vim, Emacs, and Sublime Text.
- Built in Image Editor – resize, crop, rotate, or flip straight from the browser.
- 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.
- Support for public and private projects.
- Plug-in support.
- Split view.
- VIM, Emacs and Sublime modes.
- Run Panel – extensive set of default Runners to execute apps, such as Ruby, Python, PHP/Apache, CoffeeScript, or Node.js.
- Syntax highlighting for: 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), and XML.
Website: aws.amazon.com/cloud9
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Developer: Amazon
License: Freeware
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