Best Code Editors in China
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What are Code Editors in China?
Code editors are software tools that allow developers to write, edit, and debug source code for programming and web development. These editors provide essential features like syntax highlighting, code completion, auto-indentation, and error detection to enhance productivity and reduce coding errors. Many code editors also offer integrations with version control systems (like Git), debuggers, and build tools, allowing developers to manage their code and workflows efficiently. While some code editors are lightweight and focused solely on text editing, others offer extensive features and customization options through plugins and extensions. By providing a streamlined environment for coding, code editors are essential for software development, web development, and scripting tasks. Compare and read user reviews of the best Code Editors in China currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Windsurf Editor
Windsurf
The Windsurf Editor is a free AI-powered IDE and AI coding assistant that accelerates development by providing intelligent code generation and agents in over 70 programming languages and more than 40 IDEs, including VSCode, JetBrains, and Jupyter Notebooks. With Windsurf, developers can write code faster, eliminate repetitive tasks, and stay in the flow state—whether they're working with Python, JavaScript, C++, or any other language. Built on billions of lines of open-source code, Windsurf Editor understands and anticipates your coding needs, offering multiline suggestions, automated unit tests, and even natural language explanations for complex functions. It’s perfect for streamlining code writing, reducing boilerplate, and cutting down the time spent on documentation searches. Trusted by individual developers and Fortune 500 companies alike, Windsurf Editor is your go-to solution for boosting productivity and writing better code. Try Windsurf for free today!Starting Price: Free -
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Visual Studio Code
Microsoft
VSCode: Code editing. Redefined. Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere. Go beyond syntax highlighting and autocomplete with IntelliSense, which provides smart completions based on variable types, function definitions, and imported modules. Debug code right from the editor. Launch or attach to your running apps and debug with break points, call stacks, and an interactive console. Working with Git and other SCM providers has never been easier. Review diffs, stage files, and make commits right from the editor. Push and pull from any hosted SCM service. Want even more features? Install extensions to add new languages, themes, debuggers, and to connect to additional services. Extensions run in separate processes, ensuring they won't slow down your editor. Learn more about extensions. With Microsoft Azure you can deploy and host your React, Angular, Vue, Node, Python (and more!) sites, store and query relational and document based data, and scale with serverless computing. -
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Eclipse IDE
Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse IDE The Leading Open Platform for Professional Developers used in computer programming. Better Than Ever. The Eclipse IDE delivers what you need to rapidly innovate. Easier IDE configuration The Eclipse IDE Installer 2020-09 and several packages now include a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Improved theming and styling. Improved Windows dark theme and GTK light theme. Moving to bleeding edge. Eclipse IDE now needs Java 11 as a minimum version to run on, but you can compile any version as usual. New experimental features. Support for aarch64. Linux support landed this version. Node.js is now embedded For all our LSP-based toolings, Node.js is now embedded to make things work out of the box Free and open source Free and open source; released under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0. Powered by Participation. A vast ecosystem of plugins from an active community -
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Overleaf
Overleaf (Writelatex Limited)
There's nothing complicated or difficult for you to install, and you can start using LaTeX right now, even if you've never seen it before. Overleaf comes with a complete, ready to go LaTeX environment which runs on our servers. With Overleaf you get the same LaTeX set-up wherever you go. By working with your colleagues and students on Overleaf, you know that you're not going to hit any version inconsistencies or package conflicts. -
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Dev-C++
Embarcadero
Embarcadero Dev-C++ is a new and improved fork (sponsored by Embarcadero) of Bloodshed Dev-C++ and Orwell Dev-C++. It is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and code editor for the C/C++ programming language. It uses Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) as its compiler. Embarcadero Dev-C++ can also be used in combination with Cygwin or any other GCC based compiler. Embarcadero Dev-C++ is built using the latest version of Embarcadero Delphi. Embarcadero Dev-C++ has a low memory footprint because it is a native Windows application and does not use Electron. Optimized for parallel compilation on modern multi-core machines. -
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Vim
Vim
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built for creating and changing any kind of text efficiently. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X. Vim is rock stable and is continuously being developed to become even better. Vim is persistent, multi-level, with an extensive plugin system, support for hundreds of programming languages and file formats, powerful search and replace feature, and it integrates with many tools. Vim online is a central place for the Vim community to store useful Vim tips and tools. Vim has a scripting language that allows for plugin like extensions to enable IDE behavior, syntax highlighting, colorization as well as other advanced features. These scripts can be uploaded and maintained using Vim online. Vim stands for Vi IMproved. It used to be Vi IMitation, but there are so many improvements that a name change was appropriate. Vim is a text editor which includes almost all the commands from the Unix program "Vi". -
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CodeSandbox
CodeSandbox
CodeSandbox is a cloud development platform that empowers development teams to code, collaborate, and ship projects of any size from any device in record time. Run your code in powerful microVMs and build anything without limits. We configure your environment for you and keep your code always ready, behind a URL. Boxy, the CodeSandbox AI coding assistant, is also now available to all Pro subscribers.Starting Price: $12 per month -
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StackBlitz
StackBlitz
Create, edit & deploy fullstack apps — in just one click. Create user interfaces that are out of this world thanks to our partnership with Progress KendoReact. Go to Definitions, and other Visual Studio Code features just work. Tweak your app in real time without page reloads while preserving your app state. Import any NPM package into your project quicker than on local. Thanks to our revolutionary in-browser dev server. Drag & Drop files and folders into the editor. No more copy + pasting, uploading, or git commands. Your app is being hosted for easy live sharing. Create new projects by simply POSTing the desired project data from a form— useful when you don't/can't use our Javascript SDK. With your desired StackBlitz project open, simply drag and drop any files and folder you want to import.Starting Price: $9 per month -
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Pinegrow
Pinegrow
Pinegrow is a Mac, Windows and Linux web editor that lets you build responsive websites faster with live multi-page editing, CSS & SASS styling, CSS Grid editor and support for Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, Foundation and WordPress. Pinegrow is a desktop website builder that opens and saves standard HTML and CSS files. That means you won’t be locked into a proprietary file format. Just open and edit your existing projects. Use Pinegrow alongside other web development tools. Build websites offline, without internet connection. Create as many websites as you want. Quickly build the layout of your webpage with powerful visual tools for adding, editing, moving, cloning and deleting HTML elements. Insert multiple elements with repeater and modify the layout of all selected elements with one move. Inspect active CSS rules, use rich visual controls, CSS Grid editor, Dev tools-like editor or code - all working together as one. Edit SASS and LESS, live, without any external tools.Starting Price: $6 per month -
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WebStorm
JetBrains
WebStorm is an integrated development environment for JavaScript and related technologies. Like other JetBrains IDEs, it makes your development experience more enjoyable, automating routine work and helping you handle complex tasks with ease. Write more reliable and maintainable code, with the IDE running dozens of code inspections as you type and detecting potential problems. Refactor your entire codebase in a few clicks and don’t miss anything when implementing large structural changes. Get straight to coding with everything you need for JavaScript development available out of the box. Be more productive and focus on more creative tasks while WebStorm takes care of all the routine work for you. Afraid of messing something up with Git and losing important changes? Or breaking something when renaming a component across your entire project? WebStorm will simplify these and other challenging tasks so you can focus on the big picture.Starting Price: $129 per user per year -
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Komodo Edit
ActiveState
Komodo Edit is a great editor if you’re looking for something powerful, yet simple. Komodo IDE provides more robust functionality such as debugging, unit testing, code refactoring and code profiling. Software vendors are increasingly the front line of security for their customers since one compromised patch or upgrade can make hundreds or even thousands of your customers susceptible to cyberattacks. Don’t be the next SolarWinds. Rather than implementing multiple point solutions and custom code, the ActiveState Platform can provide you with an out-of-the-box solution that helps ensure the security and integrity of the open source components you import, work with and run.Starting Price: $84 per month -
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Sumocode
Sumo Apps
Create apps and games with just a few lines of code. Learn how to code with gamified examples. Remix example of sample code or write something new from scratch. Inspired by examples, using JavaScript as a language you'll discover how easy it is to program and create games with few lines of code. Boost your creativity with Sumocode, and let your mind build new things! Update your skills and learn how to code like a pro! There's no holding back your imagination! Learn to apply engineering concepts to create digital solutions to problems at hand! It doesn't matter if you're 5, 55, or 105, you can learn to code! Sumocode is here to help you navigate the first steps on your journey to becoming a programmer. It is easier than you think. Learn to build apps and code snippets. It is surprisingly easy with our Sumo3D code library. You can use our examples as the base or create your own apps from scratch.Starting Price: $9 per month -
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rnbw
rnbw
HTML and CSS are what you see in your browser. they're not just code, they're design tools. when you design with them, you're not on a flat canvas, you're crafting within the web's natural structure. think of the web as boxes inside boxes. this lets you freely move and compose content. with rnbw, you're designing inside the web's framework. working within these limits, you're embracing the essence of web design. rnbw is simple enough for anyone, flexible enough for anything, and open enough to use anyhow. it differs from traditional software by focusing on atomic concepts. while features are great "one-size-fits-all" solutions, atomic concepts multiply their meaning when combined. by breaking down complex ideas into atomic concepts, rnbw allows users to build their solutions in the best way possible that works for them, not others. we believe this design principle is the key to more powerful software.Starting Price: Free -
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Slater
Slater
The scripting layer for Webflow powered by AI. We made Slater, a code editor that harnesses the power of AI so you can take your projects to the next level. We are building Slater with feedback from the best Webflow devs in the world. Whether you're part of a team or an individual, Slater helps you supercharge your website seamlessly. Write a prompt, hit enter, and let AI do the heavy lifting. Having an AI tool built into Webflow allows you to quickly and easily generate the exact code you need for your project. Develop faster without being restricted. Work with multiple people on the same project at the same time. Write code for different pages in the same file. Copy the script from Slater, paste the script into your Webflow project, and save. You have now connected the most robust AI-powered modern coding environment you have ever used to your project. Code seamlessly without worry. Ask Slater to write code and continue to refine it with further prompts.Starting Price: $10 per month -
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Toddle
Toddle
You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Install native packages with rich functionality and zero need to manage dependencies, no more broken plugins. Install pre-built packages built by a world-class developer community and accelerate your time to market, with no coding required. Design cool components, actions, or formulas, package them, and use them everywhere, no need to mess around with complicated formulas. Toddle is a visual web app builder that rivals custom code but is accessible to your entire team. Professional no-code web app editor, built-in live collaboration, version control, and hosting. Toddle is a visual programming platform for building modern web applications without writing code. You may want to host your Toddle creations yourself instead of relying on Toddle's infrastructure. We offer code export via web components. Live updates when you edit your component in the editor.Starting Price: $29 per month -
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Aptana
Axway
Aptana Studio 3: The world’s most powerful open-source web development IDE just got better. Rebuilt from the ground-up. It's now much faster, customizable and includes new features to help you be more productive. Build web applications quickly and easily using the industry’s leading web application IDE. Aptana Studio harnesses the flexibility of Eclipse and focuses it into a powerful web development engine. Aids in authoring of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. Supports the latest HTML5 specifications. Includes information about the level of support for each element in the major web browsers. Support for one-shot as well as keep-synchronized setups. Multiple protocols including FTP, SFTP, FTPS and Capistrano. Ability to automatically publish your Ruby & Rails applications to hosting services such as Heroku and Engine Yard. Set breakpoints, inspect variables, control execution. The integrated Ruby & Rails and JavaScript debuggers help you squash those bugs. -
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Theia
Theia
Eclipse Theia is an extensible platform to develop multi-language Cloud & Desktop IDEs with state-of-the-art web technologies. Not sure whether you need a web or desktop version or both? With Theia you can develop one IDE and run it in browsers or native desktop application from a single source. The Theia project is hosted at the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation, and is developed by a diverse community. Unlike other "open-source" projects, projects hosted at an Open-Source Foundation are protected against single-vendor decisions against the interest of the diverse community. Theia is designed in a modular way to allow extenders and adopters customizing and extending every aspect of it. Composing a custom IDE-like product is as easy as listing all needed extensions in a package.json file. Adding new functionality by implementing your own extensions is easy, too and provides all the flexibility you need.Starting Price: $0 -
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Boost Note
Boost Note
Boost Note is a powerful, lightspeed collaborative workspace for developer teams. Built to empower developers productivity with the most solid note taking experience for developers. Not just a GitHub flavored markdown. Put diagrams with Charts.js, Mermaid, and PlantUML in documents to maximize visibility. Choose from keymaps like Vim, over 150 themes, and more to create your own Markdown editor. Manage your documents programmatically. Grab an authentication token and access Boost Note's APIs via simple HTTP requests. Automate your documentation work with over 2,000 external tool integrations via Zapier. Collaborate with your colleagues and share information your way. Have all your teams in one shared workspace. Write documents as a team with Boost Note's realtime editing. Check revision history of a doc. You can easily roll back to one of the previous versions in one click. Keep your important data safe through granula access control based on workspace.Starting Price: $3 per member per month -
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Codespaces
GitHub
Use the full power of Visual Studio Code, including the editor, terminal, debugger, version control, settings sync, and the entire ecosystem of extensions. Work in the browser or hand off to your desktop. Spin up new dev environment for any sized project in seconds with prebuilt images. GitHub’s own 35GB dev image starts in under 10 seconds. Scale your cloud VMs up to 32 cores and 64GB of RAM. And with low-latency connections across four regions, you won’t even remember it’s not your local machine. Preview your changes in the browser with instant reloads (websocket and HMR support) and share private and public ports with your teammates. Every nerdy detail only you care about, configured just right, backed by your own dotfiles repository.Starting Price: $4 per user per month -
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OpenProcessing
OpenProcessing
Code away your ideas in seconds with intuitive editor and p5js, enable common libraries with ease, and share your work with the community. Explore generative art, create and collaborate with the community, teach creative coding in the classroom.Starting Price: Free -
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CodeTasty
CodeTasty
Modern, smart & extensible cloud IDE. CodeTasty is powerful IDE in the cloud with additional features only a cloud application can give you. Our IDE helps you write readable and clean code the smarter way - in real time. The code editor provides silk-smooth experience accompanied with error detection tools, code completion, built-in compilation and a lot more. Login to IDE and start coding. There is no setup at all, you’re ready to work on your projects right away. Experience desktop-like speed and performance while editing your files in the cloud. And, unlike desktop, see what your collaborators are doing. We understand every developer has different needs. You can install countless extensions to enhance your productivity. CodeTasty supports more than 40 languages. The editor supports all major languages and up to a hundred thousand lines of code in a single file.Starting Price: $4 per month -
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Code Time
Software.com
Automate your time tracking. Get automatic time tracking that will save you time, so you can focus more on what matters. Track and visualize all of your projects, or export your data to connect to your billing and timesheet tools. Code Time is a time tracking and analytics plugin provides detailed reports of your code time by project. Visualize your projects, daily progress, and work calendar in one spot. Upgrade to streamline project reports and billing. Export your data, packaged up over any time period or by project or branch. Power your own dashboards or reports in your favorite analytics tool or upload with billing tools. Software integrates directly with more than 15 of the most popular code editors and IDEs. Track your hours and generate reports right from your code editor. -
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Emacs
GNU
At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. Content-aware editing modes, including syntax coloring, for many file types. Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users. Full Unicode support for nearly all human scripts. Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface. A wide range of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, IRC client, and more. A packaging system for downloading and installing extensions. Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers. Text shaping with HarfBuzz. Native support for JSON parsing. Better support for Cairo drawing. Portable dumping used instead of unexec. Support for XDG conventions for init files. Additional early-init initialization file. Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line. Support for resizing and rotating of images without ImageMagick. -
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Light Table
Light Table
Connects you to your creation with instant feedback and showing data values flow through your code. Easily customizable from keybinds to extensions to be completely tailored to your specific project. Try new ideas quickly and easily. Ask questions about your software, to give you a more profound understanding of your code. Embed anything you want, from graphs to games to running visualizations. Everything from eval and debugging to a fuzzy finder for files and commands to fit seamlessly into your workflow. An elegant, lightweight, beautifully designed layout so your IDE is no longer cluttered. No more printing to the console in order to view your results. Simply evaluate your code and the results will be displayed inline. Developer tools should be open source. Every bit of Light Table's code is available to the community because none of us are as smart as all of us. -
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RunCode
RunCode
RunCode offers online developer workspaces, which are environments that allow you to work on code projects in a web browser. These workspaces provide you with a full development environment, including a code editor, a terminal, and access to a range of tools and libraries. They are designed to be easy to use and allow you to get started quickly without the need to set up a local development environment on your own computer.Starting Price: $20/month/user -
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Editor.do
Editor.do
Editor.do is an all-in-one online IDE and hosting platform that allows you to create, code, host and deploy stunning & fast static websites in seconds. You can easily deploy your site files or a zip containing all your project files to our NVMe SSD storage servers, ensuring the fastest possible loading speed for your site. Our IDE supports over 150 programming languages with real-time code rendering and a panel of shortcuts and tools to search, replace, cut, select, and quickly manipulate your code. Editor.do offers over 1000 free and open-source templates covering a wide range of categories and libraries that can be imported directly from GitHub. Plus, ChatGPT is integrated and is always close at hand to help you correct, complete, or improve your code or text. Editor.do is an ideal platform for developers and designers of all skill levels who want to create stunning, fast, and secure websites in a fraction of the time.Starting Price: $3 per month -
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Writebox
Writebox
Writebox is a simple and distraction-free text editor for web. Writebox accesses your file contents, file name and folder tree through Dropbox/Google API. We don't store your file contents in our server, we save it in your local cache. We don't read your file contents, we just convert the file encoding to show characters correctly. We store the filepath of the file you last opened in Writebox in our server. This is for syncing the last edited file across devices. We collect analytics data through Google Analytics when you use Writebox. This is used only for service improvement. Writebox is a simple and distraction-free text editor for Chrome, iOS and the web. -
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Buffer Editor
Buffer Editor
Buffer Editor is a powerful code and text editor that lets you easily develop software, view code or take notes on the go. Join thousands of coders who trust Buffer Editor for fast, powerful, and advanced code editing on mobile devices. Preview any files supported by iOS including images, PDFs, movies and documents. Quickly switch between your open files. Open multiple terminals in tabs. Preview on localhost or on your server.Starting Price: $9.99 one-time payment -
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Google Cloud Shell
Google
Cloud Shell is an interactive shell environment for Google Cloud that lets you learn and experiment with Google Cloud and manage your projects and resources from your web browser. With Cloud Shell, the Google Cloud CLI and other utilities you need are pre-installed, fully authenticated, up-to-date, and always available when you need them. Cloud Shell comes with a built-in code editor with an integrated Cloud Code experience, allowing you to develop, build, debug, and deploy your cloud-based apps entirely in the cloud. You can also launch interactive tutorials, open cloned repositories, and preview web apps on a Cloud Shell virtual machine instance. -
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Cliprun
Cliprun
Cliprun makes Python automation accessible by turning your browser into a powerful development environment. Right-click any code you find online - from ChatGPT conversations to GitHub snippets - to instantly execute it without setup. Create scheduled scripts to automate repetitive tasks, analyze data with popular libraries like pandas and matplotlib, and interact with web content directly. Whether you're scraping data, automating workflows, or just experimenting with Python code, Cliprun removes the traditional barriers of environment setup and package management, letting you focus on solving problems.Starting Price: $10/month