Codeanywhere vs gulp: What are the differences?

Codeanywhere: Online code editor, available on iOS, Android and more. Integrates with GitHub and Dropbox. 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; gulp: The streaming build system. Build system automating tasks: minification and copying of all JavaScript files, static images. More capable of watching files to automatically rerun the task when a file changes.

Codeanywhere can be classified as a tool in the "Cloud IDE" category, while gulp is grouped under "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners".

Some of the features offered by Codeanywhere are:

• Code editor
• FTP Client
• SSH Terminal

On the other hand, gulp provides the following key features:

• By preferring code over configuration, gulp keeps simple things simple and makes complex tasks manageable.
• By harnessing the power of node's streams you get fast builds that don't write intermediary files to disk.
• gulp's strict plugin guidelines assure plugins stay simple and work the way you expect.

"Sleek interface" is the top reason why over 12 developers like Codeanywhere, while over 454 developers mention "Build speed" as the leading cause for choosing gulp.

gulp is an open source tool with 31.3K GitHub stars and 4.4K GitHub forks. Here's a link to gulp's open source repository on GitHub.

AdRoll, GoSquared, and CrowdFlower are some of the popular companies that use gulp, whereas Codeanywhere is used by Techstars, Accenture, and Bameslog. gulp has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1158 company stacks & 690 developers stacks; compared to Codeanywhere, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.