Cloud9 IDE

Cloud9 IDE

Developer(s)	Cloud9 IDE, Inc
Written in	JavaScript
Platform	Web
Type	IDE
License	v3 - Freeware, Non-commercial License[1] v2 - GNU GPL v3[2]
Website	c9.io

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.

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,^[3] and is hosted on Google Compute Engine.^[4]

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^[5]
  • Google App Engine^[6]
  • SFTP/FTP^[7]
• 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

An Amazon.com Company ^[8] Founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco and Amsterdam, Cloud9 IDE is a privately held company. Cloud9 IDE raised $5.5 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners and product development software company Atlassian Software.^[9]

On July 14, 2016, Cloud9 announced that they were acquired by Amazon in their blog and an email sent out to its users. ^[10]

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.

See also

• SourceLair
• Koding
• Codeanywhere
• Online JavaScript IDE

Notes

1. "Cloud9 Software Development Kit Non-commercial License Agreement". Cloud9. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
2. "LICENSE". Ajax.org. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
3. Cloud9 IDE 3.0 Now Runs in Ubuntu Containers via Docker. InfoQcom. Retrieved on 2014-08-15
4. Cloud9 IDE on Google Compute Engine. Google Cloud Platform Blog. Retrieved on 2014-08-15.
5. Windows Azure on Cloud9. C9.io. Retrieved on 2014-05-29.
6. Deploy to Google App Engine with Cloud9 and git. C9.io (2013-07-22). Retrieved on 2014-05-29.
7. Deploy to (S)FTP. C9.io. Retrieved on 2014-05-29.
9. Development As A Service Platform Cloud9 Raises $5.5M From Accel And Atlassian Software. TechCrunch (2011-06-21). Retrieved on 2014-05-29.
10. https://c9.io/blog/great-news/