Cloud IDE for Google AppEngine Go

Question

I wanted to play with the version of Google AppEngine today and wondered if anyone knew of a cloud-based IDE that could be used to do this.

I took a look at codenvy.com , which has Google AppEngine support, but only for Python and Java. I also looked at this list of cloud-based IDEs, but it's hard to say which one is most suitable for developing AppEngine Go. After this combination was noted by the experimental company Google, I assume that it may not be ready yet. Has anyone here found a decent solution?

Cheers Ole

btw: The reason I want it to be an IDE cloud is because I intend to code on my Chromebook.

Answer 1

After a few hours of messing around, I managed to make the Cloud9 IDE for my purposes. This is a little tricky, but here is what I did:

Register on c9.io and create a workspace. There is a terminal in the workspace that I used to configure the GoogleAppEngine SDK. Check which version of the SDK we need:

$ uname -a // -> Linux 64 bit 

Download the Google AppEngine SDK for Go and unzip it

 $ wget http://googleappengine.googlecode.com/files/go_appengine_sdk_linux_amd64-1.7.7.zip $ unzip go_appengine_sdk_linux_amd64-1.7.7.zip 

The Cloud9 IDEs are Python 2.6.6 by default, but the Google App Engine requires at least 2.7, so we need to update it.

 $~/c9-c9pm-8ef422e/packages/python27-2.7.3/install.sh 

The next problem is that the Go AppEngine SDK development server is tied to the local host, but the Cloud9 IDE prohibits this. Instead, they want you to bind what is in the $ IP and $ PORT environment variables. Since the dev server is Python, nothing prevents you from changing this. Directly on Cloud9, open google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/devappserver2.py , go to line 653 and change this section as follows:

 options = PARSER.parse_args() options.host = os.environ['IP'] dev_server = DevelopmentServer() 

I could not find the second port for the admin server, so I just commented it so that it shuts up - the same file, line 632 and the following:

 # admin = admin_server.AdminServer(options.admin_host, options.admin_port, # self._dispatcher, configuration, xsrf_path) # admin.start() # self._running_servers.append(admin) 

And then 621:

 apis = api_server.APIServer(os.environ['IP'], options.api_port, configuration.app_id) 

Now you can start the test server without crashing it. But before you do this, create a new myapp folder (or something that makes you happy) and copy it to the Go hello world app . Start the dev server with:

 google_appengine/dev_appserver.py myapp/ 

Your server is now running, but the Cloud9 Preview window is still not properly connected to it. I had to try running Apache:

• Click the arrow to the right of the Run button in the menu bar.
• Customization
• In the left pane, select a file.
• Select Apache + PHP from the drop-down menu.
• Click Run.

This should fail because your Go dev server is already running on the IP / Port Apache you want to bind to. But you still didn’t want to use it - your preview window is now connected and should show Hello, World!

I agree that these are pretty hacks - I will try to improve the process to make it smoother, but at least it works :)

Answer 2

Not quite ready for release, but you can check out http://www.action.io , which has a web ideal and SSH with Emacs or Vim and git integration. You can also share your box and collaborate on projects with others. The service is in beta testing, but should be a matter of time before it is ready for production.

Answer 3

 c9pm install python27 

... how I was able to upgrade Python on Cloud9.

Answer 4

Have you tried Koding ? I used my Chromebook a bit and it comes with GoLang already installed. Ontop of this, you will get sudo, and the browser is a good terminal. :)

Answer 5

https://www.codebox.io/stack/go will be perfect, but they currently do not accept registration.

Answer 6

The last dev_appserver.py allows dev_appserver.py to specify the host:

 ./dev_appserver.py helloworld/ --host 0.0.0.0 --admin_host 0.0.0.0 --admin_port 8081