JavaScript Coding on an iPad
A couple of months ago, I was on a flight, reading a book on my tablet when I recalled that I wanted to experiment with tablet based productivity, and that I had installed a free iOS JavaScript editor for this purpose. There was about an hour and a half of flight time left, so there would be plenty of time to play around with the editor.
The editor is called JavaScript Anywhere and is freely available on the AppStore. Below are some points that summarise my learnings:
The editor has a very easy to use interface, with one tab each for CSS, JavaScript and HTML changes.
You can run your creations easily using the embedded browser.
There are also two other features which I had not had the chance to play around with in offline mode. Those are the ability to email the HTML, CSS and JS files as an attachment and the ability to import and reference external image and JS files.
I built a very quick front end for a Tic-tac-toe game(did not have time for writing AI opponent, but two humans can still play against each other). One thing to note is that the editor does not have the code formatting so you will need to manually maintain indentation(even more tedious to do manually on a tablet).
It also doesn’t have any JavaScript linting capabilities so you’ll have to manually find that mistakenly added character in your script file.
Overall, JavaScript AnyWhere is a good free editor, and I’d recommend it for writing small apps on a tablet for fun.
The embedded browser window:
