Using a Chromebook as my primary device for coding wasn’t something I thought possible until I tried it. While the baseline chrome book is able to only run Chrome Based Applications, you can unlock a Developer Mode with a Linux Console Shell that let’s you install everything from vscode to git and much more.

Since I have a computer, laptop and tablet for website development, I found coding and swapping devices sort of difficult especially with the fact that most environments require me to sync github in order to get back to coding my so important HTML, CSS and JS.

I have the chromebook a proper test over 7 days to test out different methods for programming, as people might be using it for many different applications. I would recommend this device for people looking to learn programming via freeCodeCamp or working on applications such as on React, Angular, Vue, etc.

If you’re looking to do mobile application development such as on react native or flutter, this might not be the device for you

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  3. "These days the price of computer hardware is ridiculously expensive." Compared to when? The old days? When pretty much no one owned computers except for the rich?

  7. I coded on python on my nicer chrome book this year for my high school CS class. It was hard to find some support things online but overall pygame worked and everything was good

  15. I don't know if you'll see this nearly 5 months later, but why not wipe Chrome OS and install Linux on the bare metal? Would've made for an easier setup and you could play with the hardware more. Even if all you're doing for work is web development, in your off time you could have more fun.

  16. All credit goes to Linux development program which is still beta and i wasn't before in chrome books 1 year ago 5 months ago they got proper packages. Older chrome books are wacky. Still 40-50 percent chrome book in market don't have Linux or don't support so sadly th
    ey can't do coding.

  20. Its incredible how ignorant JavaScript developers are, he doesn't understand the basics of package management and tries to install everything from the browser, just googling solutions without knowing what it does

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