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CodeSandbox vs Koding: What are the differences?
What is CodeSandbox? Online playground for React. 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.
What is Koding? A new way for developers to work. Koding is a feature rich cloud-based development environment complete with free VMs, an attractive IDE & sudo level terminal access!.
CodeSandbox and Koding can be primarily classified as "Cloud IDE" tools.
CodeSandbox is an open source tool with 7.52K GitHub stars and 931 GitHub forks. Here's a link to CodeSandbox's open source repository on GitHub.
I am going to learn machine learning and self host an online IDE, the tool that i may use is Python, Anaconda, various python library and etc. which tools should i go for? this may include Java development, web development. Now i have 1 more candidate which are visual studio code online (code server). i will host on google cloud
The main contenders here are VS code and Eclipse, because Koding is meant to be used by large companies and by devs who know what they are doing. Both VS code and Eclipse have pros and cons, but for someone who wants to learn, VS Code is a much better choice as it has a very simple UI and plugins are easier to find and download.
Eclipse isn't meant for learning purposes and was designed with the intent to be used by professionals. Also it is an amazing IDE for java, but isn't so good in other languages, while VS code is much more efficient in a vast number of languages.
The only likely issue you might be facing with vs code is that, at times, it can be a resource hog, and in extreme cases it is possible to crash. But it is very rare and I recommend you have at least 8GB ram and at least a dual 1.6 GHz CPU.
Pros of CodeSandbox
- Awesome way to fun kickstart your ReactJS apps9
- Online vs-code editor look and feel to start react7
- Is open-source5
- Easiest way to showcase4
Pros of Koding
- Free36
- Built in terminal for vm31
- Free vm with ssh access30
- Apps15
- Real time code collaboration with infinite # of people14
- Built in social network with developers from all over13
- Good ui12
- Active community12
- 1gb ram on the free plan12
- Strong alternative of localhosts10
- Free public ip6
- Best online ide3
- Easy and reliable2
- Koding University1
- Koding Package Manager1
- Automated development environment setup system1
- No free VM anymore1
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Cons of CodeSandbox
- 250 module limit4
- Hard to use the console1