Workspaces is LIVE! -- A New Way to Code on Treehouse

cool! can't wait to try them out.

This is so awesome!! :)

Awesome Team-Treehouse's Workspace.

Looking forward to try it out

Nices ...this is amazing ....

A wonderful addition! :)

Very nice feature!

I'm very excited about this! Great job!

Maybe a codepen replacement?

Projects don't save correctly, through sometime code is disappear from files, before exiting all turns is saved. Need fix this.

What a great idea, you guys rock!

It's been great so far; I'm looking forward to the features that'll be released in the future for it, especially when it comes to preprocessors.

how to enable live preview?? i tried using live preview but it just doesn't work. i need to refresh my browser first to see the updated one.

What is the difference between this and codepen ? I do not get the need.

Hi, Hass Beydoun

Personally, it depends on how comfortable you are having lesson-related content litter your CodePen account unless you have a Pro account (I had one until today; have to wait a while before renewing. I haven't used it as often as I would want to since you can't use Sass 3.3 or import Sass libraries like SassMeister allows you to); especially if you know you'll do that over and over again trying to learn.

Workspaces also allows you to have a more organized structure mirroring the material you'll be able to finish using it via the courses since it allows you to create folders and use relative paths. CodePen allows you to upload assets, but you have very limited control on how to structure things from there. and have features more catered to experimentation, and showcasing work to others (via Professor mode and so on).

Having folders also allows Workspaces to feel more like a true local environment, which is extremely useful towards you learning how to code, in my opinion.

This is a great feature for use to use on the site, nice work.

Just wondering, could we use Sass on this tool.

Big fan of this new add on!!

Wow it looks cool. Just found a new way to code at school!

ITS AMAZING!!!!! i have projects all the time in tech classes that need websites. now i know what i'm doing during school! :)

I'm impressed. I was actually hoping a feature like this would be added.

At first I thought that Workspaces was going to be a feature that newcomers to Treehouse would use. A tool that was quick and easy to set up and work with, but didn't have a whole lot of powerful features. Something to use until you get your hands on a real text editor like TextMate or Sublime or Notepad++.

But after playing around with it for a few minutes, I came to realize something. Workspaces is a real text editor.

First of all, it's cloud-based. I can edit code from anywhere, without having to stop and sync files and move stuff around.

Because of that, (I'm hoping that) any work I do in Workspaces will be fairly easy to share with others. If I'm working on a potential design in just some basic HTML and (S)CSS for a friend's website, I can just email them a link to it. No more screenshots!

Also, it's pretty feature-rich, especially for a web editor. It's got code completion (which works pretty well, actually) and it has a lot of shortcuts and tools for managing code (indentation, rearrangement, etc.), both of which I didn't know about for awhile after I got into web development.

Of course, I'd like to see more languages supported, especially Sass/SCSS. I'd also be really happy if server-side languages were supported (PHP/WordPress, Ruby/Rails, etc.), but I completely would understand if such a thing were impossible. Support for Git would also be pretty cool. All that lies in the future, though (as the original post says), and I'm plenty content to wait it out.

Great addition, Treehouse! Keep it up!

I love the workspaces. They are very helpful and allow me to code the projects without needing to get a text editor and it has a lot of the Sublime Text features that I always wanted but I don't have $70 to spend on a code editor at this time. I feel fancy now, lol.

May I make a suggestion. My only issue is that when you launch a workspace, it opens up a totally new browser window. Personally, I don't like to have too many windows. I would like for it to open up in a separate tab instead. If I had dual monitors then this wouldn't be an issue. Most of the time when I am on Treehouse, I am on my laptop and when it pops up on a separate window, I have to then click and drag it into the window I was primarily using. When you do decide to update it, if you could maybe put in an option for the user to select whether they want to open in a new tab or window before they launch the workspace, that would be awesome.

Amazing workspace ..

Hello word!

It's a very capable text editor, and I like it a lot, but I just reopened a workspace to find that nothing saved. The files were gone. I haven't seen anyone else mention entire files disappearing, although one person did mention some code not saving. Not sure where they went, but clearly, we need to have projects save correctly. Has anyone else experienced this?

There's a few bugs, but honestly, the system is phenomenal. You guys have really done an amazing job. I just wanted to make you aware that file loss is something that can happen as of right now. I got curious and experimented with it, making some very basic things, and noticed that the files didn't return when I came back. If I see anything else, I'll let you guys know. Thanks for making a great tool with so much potential!

This was supposed to be a comment on your response. That didn't work, so ignore this one.

There are a few things that don`t work for me:

• Ctrl + arrow key -> doesn't bring me to the end of the line.
• Ctrl + Shift + Arrow key -> Doesn't Highlight the element like it should.

Just to let you guys know to fix it, besides that it's looking good so far!

Awesome, this definitely adds a great value to sign up with Treehouse. Less expense in getting an editor.

Do the url's of a preview change or are they per workspace ? For example http://web.ulva5f1392.treehouse-app.com/

I ask because I was wondering what the views are on asking someone for their preview url when they are talking about a hard to track down issue.

Best text editor I've used and I've used A LOT of them! Wish you could release a desktop version with theme support.

treehouse can you make an app for workspace. offline editing will be good