The Codio dev team has been busily working away for months now with a relentless focus on making Codio the most indispensable IDE experience for our users – so today we’re thrilled to share with you the fruits of their work - a brand new Codio experience packed full of new functionality and engineered with a total focus on delighting you at every stage of the experience.
"Instant Coding Environments" with Stacks & Starter Packs
Central to that experience is the concept of instant coding environments with the launch of a library of pre-configured software Stacks and Starter Packs, readily accessible to all our users. Here our focus has been to remove as much wasted set up and configuration time as possible and to create a compelling resource to enhance your programming experience and inspire new learning and creativity.
Now when you visit the IDE – as well as seeing all your projects – you’ll also see Stacks and Starter Packs in the main dashboard menu. We’ve got Stacks for LAMP, Angular, LEMP, Node, Grunt, Mongo Db, Python and Ruby on Rails, to name just a few.
You can select from a Codio certified and pre-configured library of software (languages, databases and other components) and be coding in an instant. Each Stack and Starter pack comes with detailed descriptions and version history so you're always up to date.
Alternatively, you can create your own Stacks.
You can keep Stacks private to your projects or publish a stack for the community - and if you can’t find or create the stack you need, let us know in the forum.
Brand New Codio UI
With all this new functionality comes a brand new UI - with the IDE dashboard designed to make your experience as simple and as intuitive as possible.
We've also re-built the Codio site from the ground up. We chose generative art as our design theme - showcasing the creative potential of programming with art created with code. We'll continue to refresh the art work on a regular basis.
We've re-organised our documentation where new users can find a quick start guide as well as detailed information on Stacks and Starter Packs.
Relentless Focus on Innovation
In a related blog post today, we're also announcing a commitment to focus on the education sector. In the near future you can expect much more from Codio, particularly in the areas of collaboration, Tutorials & guides, and advanced features for teachers of computer programming.
We're spending more and more of our time interacting directly with current and prospective users and we're always listening to their experiences and looking for ways to reflect their needs and aspirations in the innovation we deliver.
You can always share your ideas and feedback in our forum, or contact us directly.
We'll be more and more active keeping the community up to date, so stay tuned - you can also follow Codio on Twitter for the latest news and status updates.
