{"id":5306,"date":"2012-01-06T15:57:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T14:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=5306"},"modified":"2012-01-06T15:57:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T14:57:37","slug":"trying-out-nide-a-cloud-ide-for-node-js","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5306-trying-out-nide-a-cloud-ide-for-node-js.html","title":{"rendered":"Trying out nide – a cloud IDE for Node.js"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was intrigued by reports of nide<\/a>, a web-based IDE for Node.js. It was one of the entries<\/a> in the Node.js Knockout challenge last summer.<\/p>\n

So how do you install it? One line on Linux; but I did not want to put it on my web server and I re-purposed my spare Linux machine last year after one of my other servers broke. <\/p>\n

I decided to run up a Debian install on a Hyper-V server that has a little spare capacity.<\/p>\n

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I then followed the setups here<\/a> for setting up Node.js and npm (Node Package Manager). I also installed nginx<\/a> which I have been meaning to try for a while. Linux on Hyper-V works fine, though you have to use a \u201cLegacy\u201d network adapter which compromises performance a bit, unless you are willing to tackle installing Microsoft\u2019s Hyper-V integration components for Linux, which do not support Debian though it is said to work. I do not need a GUI and the legacy network adapter is OK for this.<\/p>\n

Everything works OK, though I found that nide does not work in Internet Explorer 9. I used Google Chrome, which makes sense I guess since the same JavaScript engine is used by Node.js.<\/p>\n

Nide is a simple affair which is essentially a file manager. Projects are displayed in a tree view, and you select a file to view or edit it. The icons at the bottom left of the screen let you create and delete files and folders.<\/p>\n

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The smartest feature is version management. Files are saved automatically and you can easily compare versions and revert if necessary. The \u201cGo backward in time\u201d button shows that auto-saves are quite frequent.<\/p>\n

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There is also a GUI for npm built-in. Pretty good for a competition entry, though I had a few problems.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in web-based IDEs, another interesting one is Orion<\/a>, an Eclipse project.  Executive Director Mike Milinkovich says<\/a> Orion will ship a 1.0 release later this year.<\/p>\n

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