Code Pad IDE is a free and lightweight IDE/text editor built for Chrome operating system. Code Pad allows you to write code and build projects in an easy way right on your Chrome OS device.

The IDE supports a variety of different languages!

P.S. You can also use it as a simple text editor, if that's all you need (duh)...

Bash, C/C++, CoffeeScript, CSS3, Dockerfile, GitIgnore, GoLang, HTML5, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Less, Lua, Markdown, MS SQL, Perl, PHP, PHTML, Plain text, Python, Ruby, Rust, Sass, Scala, SQL, TypeScript, XML, XHTML.

• Full project browsing & management
• Over 20 familiar themes (Monokai, etc...)
• Choice of crisp monospaced editor fonts
• Ready-made code snippets
• Syntax error & bug detection/alerts
• Syntax highlighting
• Code auto-completion & hinting
• Code folding
• Works with Google Drive or Local storage
• Centralized clipboard with ChromeOS
• Automatic indent and outdent
• Tweakable interface
• Key bindings
• Drag & drop files with your mouse
• Toggle between soft tabs & real tabs
• Line wrapping
• Runs in fullscreen
• Cut, copy & paste functionality

Chromebook

The Code Pad IDE can be installed directly from the Chrome store here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/code-pad-ide/adaepfiocmagdimjecpifghcgfjlfmkh

Other devices

Alternatively, if you're not running a Chrome OS device just follow these steps:

• Clone/download this repo to your local machine
• Open Google Chrome browser
• Enter chrome://extensions in the URL bar and enable Developer Mode.
• While still on the extensions page, click the button marked Load unpacked extension... and select the directory containing the Code Pad manifest.json file.
• The app should be 'installed' on your device and should be accessible via your start menu or programs folder