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Lineman vs Nitrous.IO: What are the differences?
Developers describe Lineman as "A tool to help you build fat-client webapp projects". Lineman is a command-line utility that is hyper-focused on helping web developers build first-class JavaScript web applications. Lineman provides a thin wrapper around a number of client-side productivity tools (primarily Express, Grunt, and Testem), with the goal of helping developers focus on writing awesome web apps instead of worrying about workflow configuration. On the other hand, Nitrous.IO is detailed as "Making coding in the cloud a reality". Get setup lightning fast in the cloud & code from anywhere, on any machine.
Lineman and Nitrous.IO are primarily classified as "Front End Scaffolding" and "Cloud IDE" tools respectively.
Lineman is an open source tool with 1.19K GitHub stars and 84 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Lineman's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Lineman
- Open source1
Pros of Nitrous.IO
- Easy to use26
- Useful free plan23
- Web ide16
- Nice Price14
- Good node.js support13
- Works with meteor12
- Desktop Integration Tool11
- Easy cloud deployment8
- Easy setup7
- Fantastic way to learn a new language stack6
- Collaborative5
- Simple4
- Fast setup3
- ssh access2
- Adjust RAM and HD instantly2
- Clean (and fast) interface2
- GitHub OAuth Support2
- Go support1
- Docker Support1
- One-click github ssh setup1
- Great ruby on rails support1
- Clean Interface1