I've been looking for a good iPad code editor app and this seemed interesting. This is a quick friction log on the experience I had while traveling across the country on a plane.
The getting started pop-up is way too long for a pop up at the beginning. It needs to be broken down more and assurance made that the user can go back to it at any time, to review.
There is no GitHub integration so setting up a repo is very manual process.
There's no easy way to create pub/private keys from the iPad.
The theme-ing is lackluster at best. There's no ability to adjust the line-height.
Installing npm packages all happens in the foreground so I was blocked until it’s done. Resolving modules
This is minor friction: It wasn’t immediately clear how to preview the react app after building it.
Hot reloading doesn’t work (though you can just hit “refresh”).
You only get run time errors in console only and sometimes they don't pick up the actual problem too.
It's small but a nice feeling that you can pick your icon that goes on the iPad screen
Split windows for multiple editors is awesome!
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