Using An iPad For Web Development
My obsession with using an iPad for web development started all the way back with the first generation iPad. Tools then were sparse, but I made it work by jumping through some hoops. Today’s iPad is a much superior machine, and the available apps have come a long way toward making the iPad comfortable enough, and capable of being a web development machine.
Long have I thought about writing an article on how I use my iPad for web development. I think I just needed the right impetus, which came about today.
A long time business friend texted me a challenge, to gather a list of URLs for all images uploaded to a particular website. The kicker- I had to do it faster, and more elegantly, than another mutual friend we have. An iPad was already in my hands, all I needed was a stand to hold it up, and a Bluetooth keyboard for convenience. While our mutual friend has an impressive desktop machine, in less than 10 minutes, I was able to come up with a solution, code it, and publish it as a generic utility.
There are really only three tools that I need to enable web development on my iPad. I will describe those, but first, a bit about the iPad I use.
The Platform — 2018 iPad
You might think the latest, greatest, most powerful iPad it needed, but that is not the case. My iPad is…
