What if your dev experience was entirely in the cloud?
These days, launching applications means navigating an endless sea of complexity. We felt this pain at Google, so we started Project IDX, an experimental new initiative aimed at bringing your entire full-stack, multiplatform app development workflow to the cloud.
Project IDX gets you into your dev workflow in no time, backed by the security and scalability of Google Cloud.
Project IDX lets you preview your full-stack, multiplatform apps as your users would see them, with upcoming support for built-in multi-browser web previews, Android emulators, and iOS simulators.
As a Vim fanatic, I can’t say I’ll ever feel comfortable working in a browser, but some parts of IDX seem interesting. I wonder what the implications are for proprietary code.
I do think it solves an interesting problem where you’re working on your desktop and decide to move to your laptop and continue working on the same codebase, but don’t want to commit early so you can pull down the changes to your laptop.
It reminds me vaguely of Shells.
What if your dev experience was entirely in the cloud?
No. Just no.
Fuck no.
Hell no, no way I’d trust Google with my code. Personal or otherwise. Let me guess this would work only in Chrome.
All your codebase are belong to us.
What if your dev experience was entirely in the cloud?
What if your dev environment could disappear completely one day when we get bored of maintaining it after it doesn’t immediately displace github?
These days, launching applications means navigating an endless sea of complexity.
- Meta + D
- “vsco”
- Enter
Damn, I’m exhausted, why does launching an application have to be so hard?
Meta+e … emacsclient pops up instantly
Hey, there’s always double-clicking the icon too. Now that is exhausting.
- ctrl + t
- nvim
- calls ambulance
CTRL + Tterminal opens
