Play.js: The Node.js and React Native IDE for iPhone and iPad

I clicked the logo 3 times. It's not a video :)

The app is really slick. I&#x27;m surprised they were allowed to have their own window manager as Apple were very against that in the past. But I really like it. It actually is a nice take on a desktop environment on a tablet.<p>I&#x27;m curious it being Node.js. It can run my js file on flight mode so isn&#x27;t using a remote execution. But I didn&#x27;t believe you could run node.js on an iPad due to the Apple restrictions (hopefully I&#x27;m wrong).<p>That said, the whole ecosystem of Node.js is about bringing in modules. I can&#x27;t see any mention of how to do that.

Is there a hidden demographic of devs building React apps on iPads? This seems very, very niche.

Is there something similar that would allow me to use one of these on iPad Pro:<p>- A fully featured linux desktop with Visual Studio Code and a terminal<p>- A sandboxed terminal with persistent storage<p>- A text editor and a rust compiler<p>- A text editor<p>I could always ssh into my raspberry pi while at home, which is my second best solution. But, if anyone has some ideas&#x2F;solutions in mind that require even a large bit of tinkering, please tell me :)

Cool would be if this app had some basic git(hub) support - currently seems only to support storing files locally or sharing to anything with a registered Sharing Extension (not aware of app that registers github sharing extension)

I am incredibly excited for this. As a developer, all of my mobile devices excel at doing almost everything except....development. One step closer to a realized dream.

I bought this, it looks very nice and the UI has a very high level of polish to it.<p>I&#x27;m trying to use this with WebViews to hack together a multi-window, multi-tab browser thing, not sure if this is something that exists already.<p>The main issue with this is that it closes all of the windows when you switch away from this app, making it quite inconvenient at the moment.

Side note: I was expecting the background to be some really neat CSS trickery... Sadly just an image :&#x27;(

This is pretty cool. Just killed 30 minutes while in a waiting room.<p>Couldn’t figure out how to add modules.<p>Auto-prettier would be awesome.

What Node modules does it download and how can I inspect them? What are the security implications?

You will be much more productive on any Chromebook with a Linux distro than on a iPad.

Anything similar for android people who have some time to kill while commuting?

I hate to brag but why can&#x27;t you enlarge the screenshots on the App Store? Why is there no info or video what so ever to showcase the tool?

the video doesn&#x27;t seem to play...

Cool but why though? I understand for those small percentage of iPad users this will be great.