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CodePen vs Codio: What are the differences?
CodePen: An online community for testing and showcasing user-created HTML, CSS and JavaScript code snippets. It is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers.. It functions as an online code editor and open-source learning environment, where developers can create code snippets, creatively named "pens", and test them; Codio: An awesome Web IDE that runs right in your browser. 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.
CodePen and Codio can be categorized as "Cloud IDE" tools.
According to the StackShare community, CodePen has a broader approval, being mentioned in 6 company stacks & 14 developers stacks; compared to Codio, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.
Pros of CodePen
Pros of Codio
- Clean, slick and smooth user interface10
- Fast7
- Free7
- GitHub integration7
- Unlimited free public project6
- Great customer support4
- Linux command line2
- Collaboration1
- SFTP access to your own machine1
- Write rich teaching content using markdown1
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Cons of CodePen
- No support for any other git-server than github3