CodePilot

This is a tool meant to help people collaborate on code more seamlessly by integrating some core programming tasks into a single web IDE. It also encourages collaborator awareness without generating onerous distractions, and can serve as a bridge for people learning to use version control.

features

• project-wide synchronous editing (updates in real time)
• testing, both with PythonTutor and our website renderer
• robust GitHub interface (push, pull, checkout, fork, branch)

development

Runs on Meteor 3 (Node 24, native on Apple Silicon). Install Meteor, then:

git clone https://github.com/jeremywrnr/codepilot.git
cd codepilot
just install
just run      # http://localhost:3000, creates settings.json in dev mode

(just lists all tasks.)

settings.json is gitignored. For the real GitHub/Firebase it needs two things:

1. GitHub OAuth app (register one here): set the homepage to http://localhost:3000 and the callback URL to http://localhost:3000/_oauth/github. Put the client id and secret under github.
2. Firebase Realtime Database (backs the Firepad collaborative editor): create a Firebase project, add a Realtime Database (test-mode rules are fine for local dev), register a web app, and copy its apiKey, authDomain, databaseURL and projectId under public.firebase.

No credentials yet? Set "devMode": true under public and leave the Firebase apiKey empty. Login becomes a "dev login" button, GitHub is replaced by an in-memory fake repo (imports/server/fake-github.js, resets on restart), and the editor saves straight to Mongo instead of Firepad (no live co-editing).

Toasts: https://github.com/CodeSeven/toastr

background

This project started out as work done for my master's thesis, which can be found here.