The Version 11.2 release of the GitLab devops platform enhances its Web IDE editor as well as Android support.

With its client-side evaluation capability, Web IDE now lets developers preview a JavaScript web app, to view changes in real time. Fixes can be tested before being committed or experiments can be done on them. Developers also can contribute to an open source project with no need to clone locally.

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Powering client-side evaluation is the CodeBox online editor for web applications. The capability can be enabled for self-managed GitLab instances and already is enabled for projects on GitLab.com. Server-side evaluation is planned for later in 2018, to test Ruby applications and more.

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