noide

noideis a web-based IDE for Node.js. A useful, lightweight tool for Node.js, HTML5, CSS & JS development.

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noide’s current features:

File explorer tree view
File operations (create/delete/rename files and directories)
Syntax highlighted code tabbed code editing for multiple programming languages
HTML/CSS/JS beautify
Code folding
Find/Find+Replace
JSLINT validation warning
NPM integration (display currently installed packages, add/remove packages, install package dependencies)
HTTP basic authentication (for running noide on a public server)
Configurable documentation links
Run/Debugging/Previewing

Use cases:

A lightweight editor for installation on terminal cloud VMs e.g. joyent smart machine. A local editor for nodejs, css, html5, & javascript development.

Built using:

* WARNING *:

If you'd like to try out this IDE that's great and thanks BUT USE CAUTION. noide is in early stages.

It started out as a learning exercise for Backbone and Node.js and the IDE grew out of that.

Ensure any code is backed up regularly. I would not like it to be responsible for any work lost.

Having said that the IDE seems fairly stable and robust and is a workable lightweight tool for Node.js, HTML5/CSS/JS development.

Dependencies:

Node.js
Node packages (express, ejs, ejs-locals, rimraf & socket.io)

Optional

node-inspector

node-inspector works almost exactly like the web inspector in Safari and Chrome. Here's a good overview of the UI

OS Platforms/Browsers

Tested on SmartOS, Linux Ubuntu and Windows 7
Tested using Chrome, Firefox, Safari & IE9

Note: integrated debugging uses web inspector plugin available on webkit based browsers Chrome, Safari, Opera.

Instructions

From npm it's

npm install noide

Clone the repository into a folder of your choice ([noide-install-dir]).

Once complete, entering

node app

from the [noide-install-dir] should be enough to get the web app up and running.

noide runs on port 2424. Use http://localhost:2424?path=your_directory_path to open the IDE in the specified path.

E.g.

http://localhost:2424?path=/root/projects/node

http://localhost:2424?path=c:\projects\node

http://localhost:2424 should bring up your Projects Landing Page.

By default this is set to /[noide-install-dir]/noide/projects.

To change this and other settings you use a noide.json configuration file.

noide configuration file (optional)

If a noide.json file is present in the root of the [noide-install-dir] it is read on start up. This file should hold the IDE settings:

{
  "projectsDir": "",
  "users": {
    "testuser": "testpassword"
  },
  "editor": {
    "tabSize": 2,
    "useSoftTabs": true,
    "highlightActiveLine": true,
    "showPrintMargin": false,
    "showGutter": true,
    "fontSize": "12px",
    "useWorker": false
  },
  "beautify": {
    "js": {
      "indent_size": 2,
      "indent_char": " ",
      "indent_level": 0,
      "indent_with_tabs": false,
      "preserve_newlines": true,
      "max_preserve_newlines": 1,
      "jslint_happy": false,
      "brace_style": "collapse",
      "keep_array_indentation": false,
      "keep_function_indentation": false,
      "space_before_conditional": true,
      "break_chained_methods": false,
      "eval_code": false,
      "unescape_strings": false,
      "wrap_line_length": 0
    },
    "css": {
      "indent_size": 2,
      "indent_char": " "
    },
    "html": {
      "indent_size": 2,
      "indent_char": " ",
      "brace_style": "collapse",
      "indent_scripts ": "normal"
    }
  },
  "links": {
    "node": "http://nodejs.org",
    "mongodb": "http://www.mongodb.org",
    "mongoose": "http://mongoosejs.com",
    "-w3": "http://www.w3.org/",
    "mozilla js": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript",
    "expressjs": "http://expressjs.com",
    "bootstrap": "http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/",
    "-jquery": "http://jquery.com/",
    "jqueryui": "http://jqueryui.com/",
    "jquerymobile": "http://jquerymobile.com/"
  }
}

Editor

The code editor used in noide is the ajaxorg/ace editor.

Here's a useful link for default keyboard shortcuts

License

Nide is released under a MIT License:

Copyright (C) 2013 by David Stone

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.

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