An online integrated development environment, also known as a web IDE or cloud IDE, is a browser based

integrated development environment An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source code editor, build automation tools ...

. An online IDE can be accessed from a web browser, such as Firefox, Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge, enabling software development on low-powered devices that are normally unsuitable. An online IDE does not usually contain all of the same features as a traditional desktop IDE, only basic IDE features such as a

source-code editor A source-code editor is a text editor program designed specifically for editing source code of computer programs. It may be a standalone application or it may be built into an integrated development environment (IDE) or web browser. Source-code ed ...

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syntax highlighting Syntax highlighting is a feature of text editors that are used for programming, scripting, or markup languages, such as HTML. The feature displays text, especially source code, in different colours and fonts according to the category of terms ...

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version control In software engineering, version control (also known as revision control, source control, or source code management) is a class of systems responsible for managing changes to computer programs, documents, large web sites, or other collections o ...

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Read–Eval–Print Loop A read–eval–print loop (REPL), also termed an interactive toplevel or language shell, is a simple interactive computer programming environment that takes single user inputs, executes them, and returns the result to the user; a program written ...

(REPL) may also be included. Online IDE's can be further categorized into professional and educational.

Examples

Cloud9 IDE Cloud9 IDE is an Online IDE (integrated development environment), published as open source from version 2.0, until version 3.0. It supports multiple programming languages, including C, C++, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, JavaScript with Node.js, ...

Codeanywhere Codeanywhere is a cross-platform cloud integrated development environment (IDE) created by Codeanywhere, Inc. Codeanywhere enables users to write, edit, collaborate, and run web development projects from a web browser or mobile device. Codeanywher ...

* CodeSandbox * Codiva * Dockside * Eclipse Che IDE * Gitpod *

Glitch A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system, such as a transient fault that corrects itself, making it difficult to troubleshoot. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronics industries, in circuit bending, as well as among ...

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JSFiddle JSFiddle is an online IDE service and online community for testing and showcasing user-created and collaborational HTML, CSS and JavaScript code snippets, known as 'fiddles'. It allows for simulated AJAX calls. In 2019, JSFiddle was ranked the ...

PaizaCloud Cloud IDE PaizaCloud Cloud IDE is a Cloud IDE(online integrated development environment). It supports programming languages, including C, C++, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, JavaScript with Node.js, and Go. It enables developers to get started with coding i ...

Replit Replit (), formerly Repl.it, is a San Francisco-based start-up and an online integrated development environment ( IDE). Replit being Software as a service (SaaS) allows users to create online projects (called Repls, not to be confused with RE ...

SourceLair SourceLair is an Online IDE (integrated development environment) that lets you code in more than 25 programming languages and frameworks, while it integrates with Git, GitHub and Heroku. Features Code in the browser. See also *Django (web frame ...

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References

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