Being a Chrome App, it has access to the file system and can communicate with mobile devices via USB. Templates for JavaScript Polymer Chrome Apps and Chrome Extensions are to follow.ĬDE is a Polymer application written in Dart and incorporates the Ace editor, which in turn is based on Cloud9 IDE and Mozilla Bespin/Skywriter, an embeddable editor that supports syntax highlighting for over 100 languages.
It can be installed from the Chrome Web Store, and it comes with several templates providing boilerplate code for: JavaScript apps using Polymer, Polymer components, Web Starter Kit apps, JavaScript Chrome apps, or simple JavaScript and Dart apps. CDE supports JavaScript and Dart.īuilt as a Chrome App itself, Chrome Dev Editor is yet another tool from Google attempting to simplify development.
A Google engineer has made available Chrome Dev Editor (CDE) during Google IO 2014, a new IDE for creating Chrome Apps and web apps for the desktop and mobile devices.