Editor.do Reviews

I was hoping this tool could rival codepen or vscode.dev but instead it is exactly like a modern geocities.

Editor.do is a basic tool that reminds me of putting notepad++ on the web. In addition to a basic notepad it provides urls to serve your site, but hosted projects can only be HTML, CSS, js, and media files. You're allowed to have other files but they cannot be served.

You are not able to create a project without a valid domain or using up one of your allotted subdomains. I am not allowed to use this tool for editing files unless I have it tied to one of my 5 *free* subdomains. This means no backups, archiving, or dummy projects.

The way files are maintained is really where this tool fails hard. You are not able to move files into different directories. You cannot drag and drop files to upload. You cannot sort your files at all. You cannot change file types. You are limited in what file types you can add (SQL, htaccess, typescript, manifest, etc are not allowed). There's no auto save, github sync, versioning, trash/recovery, undo/redo, or creating .bak(backup) files. It's also not possible to search across files or for file names.

It's not mentioned anywhere that AI requires BYOK unfortunately and only from OpenAI.

It has some nice looking templates and the admin dashboard caught my eye. It also allows for quick importing of libraries.

There's a bug where saving MD files crashes the site and logs you out.

I will say on a positive note the tool is visually appealing and makes for easy storage and editing sites. I'm using it to edit my php site on the go. Just means I am copying and pasting or moving files to where my php site is actually hosted. Also switching between projects is fast and smooth and open files are remembered.

I loved the simplicity of the promise, and the site worked flawlessly when I initially purchased it, however it appears the developers have disappeared entirely - emails sent months ago have not been responded to. I would have given it one star, but seeing as I did find it useful when I first got it, and the fact that it's STILL actively being sold gives me some shred of hope that it's not abandonware

Since October I have been unable to verify any new domains, so I cannot host any new pages. Furthermore, once a project is live, it appears there is no way to navigate to anywhere in the settings where the A record and TXT record values that are requred for correct DNS configuration are located.. This information is provided when you create a new project, but once it's live/confirmed, it's no longer accessible.

As advertised and Imho fantastic deal. I say this as seasoned software developer who knows many ways to deploy static sites for free. I redeemed my code and within 5 mins had angular app working under a custom domain with SSL. As it worked so well for me I decided to quickly check if the things in the negative reviews were actually true. 1MB code file limit (non code files 50mb) exist but honestly that should just be your warning you likely doing something wrong. You can fit angular, react, and vue in a single file and still have it be like 500kb. Favicons for the web, and app icons for iOS / Android work just fine, manifest files work correctly. There are tons of templates so can't speak to how well those are all coded, but nothing about the editor.do would prevent a mobile app or PWA. My little test site looks fantastic on my phone. Files are served with correct MIME types and reasonable caches, if you don't see an immediate update it's just your browsers local cache which is the nature of the internet your browser and your code not really an editor.do problem. Ctrl+f5 is your friend. IMHO this fits perfectly in a niche, I have dozens of options for stackblitz like tools with virtualized build systems etc.. in a world of dev, staging, prod repos, CI, runners and actions, quite refreshing to go back to the old days and just quickly make edits in "production".

I'm sort of forcing myself to use it to make my purchase worthwhile, but it doesn't seem to be improving unfortunately.

I wish it was something that was actively developed and improved, but it seems it is not the case.

good but limited to max 1MB per code file