Okay, not exactly the entire OS that’s free, you cant just go there, open Libre office and do everything you would normally do on a PC from a web browser. But what you can do is run your NodeJS service, run an entire web application on the MEAN stack and much more without worrying about any setup. The complete dev environment is out there.
I had never played wih NodeJS before and wanted to try it out. So I
began searching on how to work with NodeJS when I stumbled upon this gem
of a website – CodeAnywhere!
This is a development environment hosted on the cloud and when you
log in you are presented with a ‘Devbox’ which is virtually a small VM
with 256 MB RAM and 2GB hard-disk space. You can choose between a Ubuntu setup or a CentOS
setup along with the technology stack be it node, MEAN, Python etc. And
there I was writing a service from my web browser which got hosted on a
remote location accessible via an URL with no cost at all and with zero
setup time. It was phenomenal. It’s simple to create a static web-page
and see it working on web browser without any real effort. But to know
that it’s as easy to create a service having access to MySQL/MongoDB
exposing APIs to solve your business logic is very impressive.
Only catch is in the free version, your devbox runs only for the time
you are logged in. So, once you log off your service hosted on the
devbox is inaccessible. But nevertheless it is an excellent tool for
learning.
On the downside, their app for iOS is really not upto the mark.
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