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CodePen vs Theia: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Theia? Cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript. 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.
CodePen and Theia can be categorized as "Cloud IDE" tools.
Theia is an open source tool with 4.91K GitHub stars and 632 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Theia's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of CodePen
Pros of Theia
- Familiar UI for VSCode users1
- Easy to use1
- Docker1
- Desktop1
- Online1
- Anywhere coding1
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Cons of CodePen
- No support for any other git-server than github4
Cons of Theia
- Can be hard to setup2