Development Environment

Add the ability to collaborate within the code editor. May only be supported in the "full" Next Code interface.

Frequently text is off screen, invisible to users and difficult to select. This should be a button, clearly visible, potentially toggleable per Creator Block, but on by default. This is both a usability and an accessibility issue. - Users can often make mistakes or miss content that will cause confusion and frustration. Circuitous mouse movements are a notorious issue for those with poor motor control. This is one of the major reasons menu navigation is considered problematic, multi-step text selection and copying is even more difficult.

Pushing (and possibly pulling from) GitHub will enable users to back up their work using GitHub.

Often text is pushed off screen even at greater than 1080p resolutions, potentially causing readability, comprehension and user error issues. Allowing a toggleable option for word wrap in Creator Markdown blocks woudl all some control over this. It should not be on by default as this is not always appropriate.

Downloading a ~25mb ZIP takes a couple of minutes even on a fast internet connection.

Otherwise it can be confusing when there are no files once the sandbox loads.

This should be a toggle in the settings for a project. Right now, this causes issues with more advanced projects, for example, ones with a file watcher (like a node server).

If student accidentally clicks /root/sandbox, as they might, thinking it will collapse the pane itself, icon does change to a closed folder, but that’s pretty subtle. Non-obvious that clicking on /root/sandbox again will re-open it. Instead looks like folder is empty.

When coding during class, it would be quite handy to be able to minimize the bottom terminal window easily, via icon or a keyboard shortcut Currently you need to click and drag the resize handle (also a potential usability issue). This is to free up screen space for the code editor.

At the moment, the file can be dragged onto the whole viewport, which is convenient, but doesn’t let the user drag a file over a specific folder in the filetree, so a user then has to use mv manually.