What is Eclipse Orion?
Eclipse Orion is a powerful cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) optimized for web development. It provides a browser-based code editor with support for various programming languages, built-in Git integration, real-time collaboration, intelligent code assist, project management capabilities, and extensibility through a rich add-on ecosystem.
Some key features of Eclipse Orion include:
- In-browser code editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, search and replace, etc. for JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, Java, JSON, and more
- Git version control integration for managing project source code
- Ability to deploy projects directly to the cloud or local servers
- Real-time multi-user editing and collaboration
- Interactive console for experimenting with APIs and testing code snippets
- Customizable user interface with drag-and-drop functionality
- Integration with task runners, dependency managers, linters, and other developer tools
- Extensibility through hundreds of open source plugins and editor extensions
Overall, Eclipse Orion brings a lightweight yet powerful IDE experience directly into the browser, optimized for building, testing and deploying modern web and cloud-based applications. Its flexible architecture also makes it a great fit for teams collaborating across diverse platforms and devices.
Codeanywhere, Icecoder, AWS Cloud9, Graviton Editor, Koding, kodeWeave, Eclipse Che, Phoenix IDE, CollabVM, Judge0 IDE, Atheos IDE, Codiad are some alternatives to Eclipse Orion.