TrustRadius Insights for Codeanywhere are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Convenience: Many users have expressed their satisfaction with Codeanywhere, highlighting its convenience as a major benefit. They appreciate the ability to work on their programming projects from anywhere, which allows them to be more flexible in managing their work.
Ease of use: The user interface of Codeanywhere has received positive feedback for its simplicity and user-friendliness. Users find it easy to navigate and quickly get started with their coding tasks.
Comprehensive features: Codeanywhere offers a range of integrated features that users find valuable in their programming workflow. These include support for Google Drive and Dropbox, mobile app access, full terminal access, SFTP access, and GitHub integration. By having all these tools available in one platform, users can conveniently manage their projects without switching between different applications or services.
I use Codeanywhere as a fully online IDE to make edits to live websites. Using Codeanywhere, I can edit the files directly on the server without having to download and keep versions on a local drive. This allows me to have the same editing experience on Mac, PC, and Chromebook, as well as have the portability to be able to edit on the fly. I have also used it to spin up development environments to crunch SCSS and do minor tasks.
Pros
Run development containers with backend and frontend access.
Allow for multiple users to collaborate and share containers and connections.
Manage multiple connections to different servers.
Cons
Since some updates a couple of years ago, using Codeanywhere as a remote code editor rather than a container-based development environment has been more cumbersome and difficult.
The modular nature of connections and containers seems like a good idea, but they don't always work properly.
It's difficult sometimes to share a connection or container together with a collaborator.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're looking for a VS Code-like online environment with containers to spin up a dev environment or execute code and scripts it is a good fit. The environments are very customizable, and, all said and done, the price is fair. If you're looking for a remote code editor that allows you to connect via SFTP/SSH and edit the remote files, it isn't quite as seamless as it used to be. I still haven't found any all-cloud alternative, but it could be better.