Chrome Dev Editor: A new JavaScript and dart IDE

During the Google IO No. 2014 period, a Google engineer brought in the Chrome Dev Editor (CDE). The IDE is used to create chrome applications and Web applications for desktop and mobile devices. CDE supports JavaScript and dart.

The Chrome Dev Editor is yet another tool that Google is trying to streamline its development, built as a chrome application. It can be installed from the Chrome Web store with a number of templates for JavaScript applications using polymer, polymer components, WEB Starter kit applications, JavaScript chrome applications, or simple JavaScript and dart applications to provide boilerplate code. Templates for JavaScript polymer chrome apps and chrome extensions will be available later.

CDE is a polymer application written in Dart and contains the ACE editor, which is built on the CLOUD9 IDE and Mozilla Bespin/skywriter, where bespin/ Skywriter is an embedded editor that supports 100 + language syntax highlighting. As a chrome application, CDE can access the file system and be able to communicate with the mobile device via USB. It supports the last two versions of all major desktop and mobile browsers.

Chrome Dev Editor runs a local webserver to test the projects that have been developed and to deploy the application directly to a Chrome Web store or mobile device, currently only Android. It has integrated git as a version control system.

Currently, the Chrome Dev editor is also a developer preview version. It is open source under the Apache 2.0 license, and the source code is on GitHub.

Chrome Dev Editor: A new JavaScript and dart IDE