Coding In The Cloud with Codenvy

Codenvy, https://codenvy.com/, is a no installation, browser based cloud IDE that makes it easy to create a project, import/export from GitHub, and deploy to a PaaS.  How easy?  It took less than 5 minutes to create a project from scratch on OpenShift with secure GitHub integration.

Codenvy supports the following technologies:

• Java Library (JAR)
• Java Web Application (WAR)
• Java Spring, JavaScript
• Ruby on Rails
• Python
• PHP 

With the following PaaS support:

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• AppFog
• Cloud Foundry
• CloudBees
• Google App Engine
• Heroku
• OpenShift

The UI is user friendly with various views that show progress, output, and logs.  It includes a customizable toolbar, customizable code format style, and keyboard shortcuts.  There is also support for Maven and running/debugging Java applications.  Inviting other developers to join your workspace provides easy team collaboration.

Although the UI felt a little awkward at first and there was no test/debug support for the PHP project I created, the easy project setup, deployment, and intuitive features seem to make it a viable development platform that validates the coding in the cloud paradigm.