nide

nide is a web-based IDE for node.js. It’s designed with simplicity and ease-of-use in mind. nide was initially developed as part of the Node Knockout 48 hour coding competition.

nide’s current features:

• Project tree display
• File operations (create/delete/rename files and folders, hide/show hidden files)
• Syntax highlighted code editing for multiple programming languages
• OS X Lion-style automatic save
• OS X Lion-style version management with revert and side-by-side editing features
• Real time project tree filtering (using regular expressions)
• NPM integration (display currently installed packages, add/remove packages, automatically update package.json)
• Image previewing.
• HTML previewing.
• HTTP authentication (for running Nide on a public server)
• Optionally run nide as a native Mac application.
• Sleek interface reminiscent of TextMate
• Node.JS Documentation browsing

What's new in Nide 0.2.0:

• You can now refresh the directory listing manually, through the gear menu.
• You can now specify a host IP for listening via a command line option.
• You can now specify a username and password for HTTP authentication.
• Editor state (caret position, selection, scroll) is now preserved when switching between multiple files.
• Nide is now available as a native Mac application. The Mac app is still on a very early stage of development, so expect some hiccups.
• Numerous bug fixes.

What's new in Nide since 0.1.0 was released:

• Nide now supports syntax highlighting for filetypes other than JavaScript.
• A simple cache mechanism is now present to avoid unnecessary directory listings.
• Directory listing is now much faster and more reliable.
• Nide is now able to launch the user's default browser from the command line
• The client code has been almost completely refactored so it's now easier to mantain.
• Nide will now check for file size before opening a file.
• HTML files can now be previewed directly from Nide.
• Image files can now be viewed directly from Nide.
• Lots of bugfixes.

Instructions

First, install nide with:

sudo npm install -g nide

On a new or existing directory, use the following command to setup a new nide project:

nide init

This command will setup a .nide directory, automatically add it to your .npmignore and .gitignore files, and start the nide server on port 8123. Fire up your web browser at localhost:8123 to use nide. If a directory is already a nide project, you can run nide simply by using:

nide

License

Nide is released under a MIT License:

Copyright (C) 2011 by Marco Aurélio

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