Development tools

Axe_meister

To all you developers.
I'm going to teach myself python to create a web driven database application.
The mysql server and python/web server are remote.
Now rather than have lots of horrid putty sessions on my desktop and everything being vi/cli driven are there any good remote guis I can use to do the development on my mac. or should I just install an X client and use native Linux development tools just displaying locally.

randella

MS Visual Studio Code is a good tool, but not sure it handles working on remote files.  I tend to work locally and then get the files onto a dev server, followed by the live server.

Anyway it's a free download for Mac if you do decide you want to try it.

Phil_aka_Pip

Avoid Eclipse

guitartango

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Avoid Eclipse

Wish I could @Phil_aka_Pip

dtr

MobaXterm is still SSH (vi/cli) but avoids the "lots of horrid putty sessions" pain.

guitartango

Axe_meister said:

To all you developers.
I'm going to teach myself python to create a web driven database application.
The mysql server and python/web server are remote.
Now rather than have lots of horrid putty sessions on my desktop and everything being vi/cli driven are there any good remote guis I can use to do the development on my mac. or should I just install an X client and use native Linux development tools just displaying locally.

What's X windows ?  I only use the terminal

@randella is correct work on your project locally then transfer the code via ssh. You could install visual code on the remote server then do ssh -X name@host then run the application from the remote command line. 

Python can be a right pain in the ar** (from a support install)

You may be better to install Linux on a old PC and use all the development tools

Phil_aka_Pip

guitartango said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Avoid Eclipse

Wish I could @Phil_aka_Pip

Aye. It's a flaky PoS with an almost totally opaque modus operandi.

EDIT in my last job I used gedit, make, and debugged with printfs. It worked fine. In this job, remote gdb is the order of the day but I waste more time arguing with eclipse than getting the job done

guitartango

Phil_aka_Pip said:

guitartango said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Avoid Eclipse

Wish I could @Phil_aka_Pip

Aye. It's a flaky PoS with an almost totally opaque modus operandi.

EDIT in my last job I used gedit, make, and debugged with printfs. It worked fine. In this job, remote gdb is the order of the day but I waste more time arguing with eclipse than getting the job done

Eclipse + virtual conda environments yuk yuk yuk 

monquixote

I'd just run the DB and web server locally for development and push it up as required.

wibble

Just install MAMP  https://www.mamp.info/en/ ; and work locally

deploy via git

Axe_meister

Am going to try local python install (Mysql server will be remote) and Django and see how I get on.

Axe_meister

PS I'm deploying to Google Cloud if that is any help as I work for them now.

digitalscream

monquixote said:

I'd just run the DB and web server locally for development and push it up as required.

This.

Failing that...look up cloud IDEs...

https://www.slant.co/topics/713/~best-cloud-ides