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Re:TextMate-like ⌘T & ⇧⌘T in Google Chrome Dev Tools & Other... by ypcx on Monday February 27, 2012 @06:40AM (#3638613)
Absolutely Awesome! One more thing is needed, however. The ability to be able to save the modified sources to the server (with appropriate security of course, dev-env only). Also the ability to fetch the server sources from the server, if e.g. I'm running a Node.js and I want to debug and edit the JS in Chrome - along with the client side JS, side by side.

The close we programmers are to the "living code", the better. The file-watching, auto-reloading and re-executing BDD's (or TDD's, etc.) like vows (http://vowsjs.org/) get pretty close to it, but it's not the same.

When I'm coding a function, I want to be able to run it anytime (when the syntax is OK of course), and in the environment of my program.

Great stuff. Also similar in-client code editing efforts, Firefox: https://github.com/Gozala/sky-edit, general: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace

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Re:TextMate-like ⌘T & ⇧⌘T in Google Chrome Dev Tools & Other... by elijahmanor on Monday February 27, 2012 @06:47AM (#3638630)
You are in luck! There is an autosave Chrome extension that will save any changes you've made to the JavaScript or CSS from Dev tools to your local file system... http://addyosmani.com/blog/autosave-changes-chrome-dev-tools...
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Re:TextMate-like ⌘T & ⇧⌘T in Google Chrome Dev Tools & Other... by adam-a on Monday February 27, 2012 @07:28AM (#3638710)
Not exactly side by side, but Node Inspector lets you use the webkit debug tools to step through Node.js code.

https://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector

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