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If you want to develop on an iPad, we're building WebForge IDE: a web IDE for iOS.

Rich text editor, run PHP and NodeJS on device, manage Git repos, and view your projects in a built-in browser that includes dev tools.

Check it out! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/webforge-ide/id6450872424

EDIT: Web Development IDE, not web-based IDE. Thanks for pointing that out! :)

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It’s confusing to call an app a web IDE, which usually denotes a web-based IDE you use in a web browser, not a locally running IDE for web development.

I guess it's a web IDE in the sense that it is an IDE made for web development rather than a more general IDE (see supported languages for example).

Yes, web development IDE is what we're getting at. We first built Inspect Browser, an iOS web browser with built-in dev tools, and figured an IDE for web development with Inspect Browser embedded would be a good next step.

Now, getting PHP and NodeJS to run on device was quite the ordeal...

Yes, and it’s confusing to call that a “web IDE”, it’s not how that term is normally used and understood.

Good point! - web development IDE would be clearer

The Replit app with an external keyboard connected also works well.

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