StackBlitz vs Theia
Overview
Share your Stack
Help developers discover the tools you use. Get visibility for your team's tech choices and contribute to the community's knowledge.
CLI (Node.js)
Manual
Detailed Comparison
Theia provides the end-user with a full-fledged multi-language IDE (not just a smart editor) and supports equally the paradigm of Cloud IDE and Desktop IDE. | StackBlitz is the browser-based IDE that eliminates time-consuming local configuration and lets you spend more time coding. Develop with Next.js, React, Angular, Vite, and more in a Node.js development environment entirely in your browser |
Cloud and desktop; Vendor neutral; Extensible; Integrated Terminal; Flexible Layout | GitHub integration; Figma integration; Storybook integration; VS Code extension support; Full terminal; npm, pnpm, and yarn support |
Statistics | |
GitHub Stars - | GitHub Stars 10.7K |
GitHub Forks - | GitHub Forks 1.2K |
Stacks 67 | Stacks 78 |
Followers 87 | Followers 259 |
Votes 6 | Votes 20 |
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What are some alternatives to Theia, StackBlitz?
Red Hat Codeready Workspaces
Built on the open Eclipse Che project, Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces provides developer workspaces, which include all the tools and the dependencies that are needed to code, build, test, run, and debug applications.
AWS Cloud9
Cloud9 provides a development environment in the cloud. Cloud9 enables developers to get started with coding immediately with pre-setup environments called workspaces, collaborate with their peers with collaborative coding features, and build web apps with features like live preview and browser compatibility testing. It supports more than 40 languages, with class A support for PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript/Node.js, and Go.
Koding
Koding is a feature rich cloud-based development environment complete with free VMs, an attractive IDE & sudo level terminal access!
Nitrous.IO
Get setup lightning fast in the cloud & code from anywhere, on any machine.
Codeanywhere
A development platform that enables you to not only edit your files from underlying services like FTP, GitHub, Dropbox and the like, but on top of that gives you the ability to collaborate, embed and share through Codeanywhere on any device.
Codio
Every project gets its own Box: an instantly available server-side development environment with full terminal access. With features such as forking, collaboration, importing from Git repos and more, Codio strives to remove as many barriers as possible to create a platform developers will enjoy using as their IDE of choice.
Eclipse Che
Eclipse Che makes Kubernetes development accessible for developer teams, providing one-click developer workspaces and eliminating local environment configuration for your entire team.
CodeSandbox
CodeSandbox allows developers to simply go to a URL in their browser to start building. This not only makes it easier to get started, it also makes it easier to share. You can just share your created work by sharing the URL, others can then (without downloading) further develop on these sandboxes.
Gitpod
Gitpod is an open source developer platform automating the provisioning of ready-to-code dev environments. Designed for applications running in the cloud, Gitpod frees engineering teams from the friction of manually setting-up loc
Codebox
FriendCode was created in 2013 with the vision of creating powerful development tools, tackling issues like collaboration, cloud development and many others. We are building Codebox, an open source Cloud IDE, than can run not only on the cloud, but on your desktop or your server as well. Codebox.io lets you host and manage Codebox instances online as a service using a dashboard or an API.
