10 Useful Cloud-based Web Development Tools

With the fast growing web development industry, many web tools have appeared to streamline the process of creating a web-based application and to help developers overcome the learning curve.

Among the multitude of tools on offer, there are some worth pointing out.

Online Playground for Web Developers

Web app development consists of many elements that require a developer to possess knowledge in many different areas. Almost every web app uses a database to store information, that's why a web developer should have SQL in his or her tool kit.

Going further, you can build app logic using various languages such as Python, Java, PHP, or Ruby. To handle the visual side of things, a developer will likely utilize a combination of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to render a nice looking web application.

To get familiar with this diverse technology stack, web app developers can make use of such as the ones described below.

1. SQL Fiddle is the perfect online tool to test queries and to compare and contrast SQL statements in different database back-ends. Installing each database often requires some effort, especially when we want to check the effect of the query in different environments. On the left pane of the SQL Fiddle application, you can create tables, views and other database structures and additionally insert some test data, while SQL statements can be inserted in the right-hand panel.
   
   
2. JSFIDDLE is an online editor for web snippets for HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The tool supports multiple frameworks and extensions like: Dojo.js, Processing.js, ExtJS, RightJS, Three.js, React.js, Knockout.js, AngularJS, Ember, Underscore, Bonsai, KineticJS, FabricJS, qooxdoo, D3, CreateJS, Paper.js, React, svg.js, Minified, jTypes, Lo-Dash, Brick, ReactiveJS, Vue, JSBlocks.
   
3. JsApp.US is a platform used to write an application quickly in JavaScript using the node.js platform. It also provides the ability to deploy the created app to the web.
   
   
4. Dabblet is an interactive CSS playground and code sharing tool.
   
   
5. PHPFIDDLE is a PHP sandbox that provides Web IDE and an execution environment for PHP. The service contains four others: PHPFiddle Main, PHPFiddle Lite, PHPFiddle CliRun , PHPFiddle Mobile.
   
   
6. Python Fiddle is a Python Cloud IDE with a syntax highlighter and Python console that enables you to run Python code from any browser, import snippets from other sites, and link to solutions from Stackoverflow. Additionally it’s powered with code auto-completion and supports many Python packages: algopy, asciitable, Cheetah, jinja2, mako, milk, ply, etc.
   
   
7. Ruby Fiddle is an online tool for Ruby snippets featured with key bindings for Vim and Emacs.
   
   
8. Go Playground The Go Playground is a web IDE for the Go programming language. It’s a web service that provides an editor for Go, compiles the written code, and outputs the results.
   
   
9. Regexpal is a JavaScript regular expression tester that contains just two windows. In the one above, you can input a regular expression while in the second one there is a place to test data.
   
   
10. Codecademy Labs is a place to test Python, Ruby, and JavaScript online.
    
    
    
11. codepad is a compiler/interpreter for C++, Python, Ruby, Haskell, PHP, and more with functionality to send a link with code or output to another person. This makes it a nice collaboration tool.