Wednesday, 25 December 2019

Amazon AWS Cloud9 IDE and What Can Be Done with It

Cloud9 IDE was bought by Amazon and added to Amazon AWS a few years ago, it's a full IDE with all necessary features including a true terminal in which to run commands and also text editors like Vim, Nano, Micro, etc. Cloud9 IDE connects to servers through SSH protocol.

Access point:
https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloud9

What can be done with Cloud9 IDE:
  • Do web programming for webapps, websites.
  • Do console programming for text-output-only programmes.
  • Do AI & ML programming on servers as text output is enough.
  • Do system administration programming in shell, eg. Bash.
What CAN'T be done with Cloud9 IDE:
  • Desktop programming (can't build and run desktop apps)
  • Mobile programming (can't build and run mobile apps on emulators)
  • Browser extension programming (can't load dev mode extension from server)
Cloud9 IDE show syntax highlighting more most of the major programming languages. It has some tens of syntax themes, however, they can't be customised like on desktop which Sublime Text is very powerful to customise any syntax; use what available only.

Commonly described, Cloud9 IDE is a good option for projects with online aspect. For offline projects, it's hard to use this IDE.

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