As of 14th of February 2015 with a commit that can no longer be linked to, the upstream author Cloud9 IDE, Inc stated that the Cloud9 v2 would no longer be maintained. The original repository issue tracker was closed and notifications were given that the project is superseded by Cloud9 v3 SDK with some substantial changes in licensing terms driven by alignment of business goals.
This repository is the maintenance fork for the original Cloud9 IDE that people grew to love. The v3 development is continuing strong but there are many changes to the original approach:
- The emphasis shifted to the development of c9.io cloud-hosted service, which was acquired by Amazon in July 2016.
- On the 30th of November 2017, AWS Cloud9 was announced.
- The on-premises solution will be a separately licensed product (if at all, since AWS aquired Cloud9)
- The distributed SDK is meant for plugin development
- The core of the product is no longer licensed as Open Source Software
That being said, AWS Cloud9 includes much more features and is a very solid and mature offering. Further more, the license allows the SDK version to be used as a personal editor. However, it is strictly prohibited to:
- Use the SDK to build or offer a service
- Make the SDK version easily available to anyone else besides yourself
If it feels like these are limiting factors for you, you are welcome to try Cloud9 v2, which is licensed under GPL version 3.
Cloud9 is an open source IDE built with Node.JS on the back-end and JavaScript/HTML5 on the client. The version available here runs on your local system. Cloud9 balances the power of traditional desktop IDEs with the simplicity and elegance of editors like TextMate and Sublime.
Cloud9 is built entirely on a web stack, making it the most hacker-friendly IDE today. Fork it, hack it, and if you think others would benefit, file a pull request against development branch in this repo or create an issue.
- Modern node support (NodeJS >= 4.8.5)
- Up to date dependencies and compatibility fixes
- Terminal
- High performance ACE text editor with bundled syntax highlighting support for JS, HTML, CSS and mixed modes.
- Integrated debugger for Node.JS applications with views of the call stack, variables, live code execution and live inspector
- Advanced JavaScript language analysis marking unused variables, globals, syntax errors and allowing for variable rename
- Local file system is exposed through WebDAV to the IDE, which makes it possible to connect to remote workspaces as well
- Highly extensible through both client-side and server-side plugins
- Sophisticated process management on the server with evented messaging
We support the newer versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
As of v2.2.0 efforts have been made to make c9v2 usable with iPad. However, for a smoother ride, some keyboard settings needs to be changed:
- Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Auto-Correction ->
Off - Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Smart Punctuation ->
Off(interferes with coding by changing quotes) - Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts ->
Off(interferes by displaying bottom bar that hides the console prompt)
If installing on Windows, please refer to Installation on Windows.
Requirements (>= 2.2.0):
- NodeJS
>= 4.8.5 - g++-4.9 (Required for node-pty compilation)
- make (Required for node-pty compilation)
- python (Required for node-pty compilation)
Install:
git clone https://github.com/exsilium/cloud9.git
cd cloud9
npm install
The above install steps create a cloud9 directory with a bin/cloud9.sh
script that can be used to start Cloud9:
bin/cloud9.sh
Optionally, you may specify the directory you'd like to edit:
bin/cloud9.sh -w ~/git/myproject
Cloud9 will be started as a web server on port -p 3131, you can access it by
pointing your browser to: http://localhost:3131
By default Cloud9 will only listen to localhost.
To listen to a different IP or hostname, use the -l HOSTNAME flag.
If you want to listen to all IP's:
bin/cloud9.sh -l 0.0.0.0
If you are listening to all IPs it is advised to add authentication to the IDE.
You can either do this by adding a reverse proxy in front of Cloud9,
or use the built in basic authentication through the --username and --password flags.
bin/cloud9.sh --username leuser --password c9isawesome
Cloud9 is compatible with all connect authentication layers,
to implement your own, please see the plugins-server/cloud9.connect.basic-auth plugin
on how we added basic authentication.
If you are on Windows Insider Program, use the Bash on Windows feature to install Cloud9.
Install NVM to manage node versions. Install a node version to your liking. The following is needed to install the needed build tools:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Clone the Cloud9 repo to your machine and run npm:
npm install
make worker
node server.js -w ./ -l 0.0.0.0 -a x-www-browser
To update to the latest version (if this doesn't work, just make a fresh clone):
git pull
npm update
npm update does not currently install missing dependencies. To do so use:
npm install
Cloud9v2 functionality is all created around server and client-side plugins. However, there is hardly any documentation about the APIs to create your own plugins. To get you started, please see exsilium/cloud9-plugin-ungit to see how to get started for a client-side only plugin.
Going forward, there will be efforts made to sort out the documentation and write some tutorials to make it more easier to get started.
The Cloud9 IDE couldn't be this cool if it weren't for the wildly productive Node.JS community producing so many high quality software. Main projects that we use as building blocks:
- async.js by fjakobs
- jsDAV by mikedeboer
- connect by senchalabs
- engine.io by LearnBoost
- smith.io by creationix & cadorn
- ace by fjakobs
- apf by ajax.org
- and of course Node.JS!
Thanks to all developers and contributors of these projects!
The GPL v3.
Open new issue for discussion and/or feel free to submit a pull request against the development branch.