# Nuclide Reviews **Vendor:** Meta Platforms, Inc **Category:** [C/C++ Integrated Development Environments (IDE)](https://www.g2.com/categories/c-c-integrated-development-environments-ide) **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 ## About Nuclide A unified developer experience for web and mobile development, built as a suite of packages on top of Atom to provide hackability and the support of an active community. ## Nuclide Reviews ### 1. As perfect an IDE as you'll get **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** Very clean, intuitive, and productive interface (from Atom); a vast library of useful extensions; pretty clever tools for repo management and web development. **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** The Interactive Smartlog in particular can be a little too simplistic at times, leaving some debug messages from Mercurial hard to find and the user puzzling over why an operation is taking so long. **Recommendations to others considering Nuclide:** Install the whole package—the extensions really work together well. **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's an incredibly effective ecosystem for developing for the web; I never find myself needing to leave Atom for anything other than my web browser. ### 2. Helps a lot with React Native projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis S. | Technology Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** I love the debugging options, specially tailored for React Native. Makes it really easy to debug your mobile App. You can also do remote debugging. It includes a toolbar that doesn't exist in the basic version of Atom, with easy access to debugging options and a handy "distraction-free mode". A new "Nuclide" menu adds tons of different options, worth mentioning access to iOS and Android logs. **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** Not exactly "dislike", but I feel like it has a ton of options, and some of them are not obvious and lack proper documentation. That being said, it's an Open Source project coming straight from Facebook so I am sure this will improve. **Recommendations to others considering Nuclide:** Spend some time configuring the environment. I recommend finding those options you're likely to use the most, and writing down a cheat sheet with keyboard shortcuts. **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am building mobile apps faster, and also I provide faster and more efficient support to my customers. The most obvious benefits are: writing code and debugging faster, support of flow, integration with emulators (and logs). In general, this IDE helps saving a lot of time. ### 3. Finally a great IDE that plays nice with Linux!!! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** I love that it's build on Atom, which before discovering Nuclide I was using exclusively. The vast supported packages library is very nice. It seem that anytime I can remember thinking 'I wonder if they have X' I have been able to either find it or easily customize it myself. Another huge plus is the nice support for the clang which is not easy to find in a user friendly IDE. **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** The only thing I don't particularly like, which is just a very picky thing, is that the startup time of Atom is slower now. But even then it's only a hair slower, I guess I'm just kind of an important person. The only other thing is that one of the packages didn't install correctly and it reminds me every time I launch. Other than that no complaints. **Recommendations to others considering Nuclide:** If you love Atom then you will love Nuclide, it enhances the elegance and ability for customization already found there. But beyond that It offers many substantial improvements such as the languages supported and frameworks implemented. If you are searching for a lightweight IDE with lots of options to meet your needs, Nuclide is for you! **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** As an aspiring security professional I am working on solving many of the security issues that exist in software. I am always striving to write good secure code and searching for security issues in existing code. It is so relaxing to have a nice IDE that I can make my own and customize for these unique tasks. ### 4. Nuclide could be cool **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Greg S. | Senior Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** Nuclide provide some great enhancements to the Atom editor. There's definitely the potential to add all the functionality need to develop react-native with. The remote development feature is extremely powerful for environments when you can't develop locally. **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** The tools a little too targeted. If you don't use mercurial or Buck or whatever else facebook feels is the best technology to use you're kinda out of luck. The toolbar should probably have the package manager too. **Recommendations to others considering Nuclide:** Follow the guide when you start using it. http://nuclide.io/docs/quick-start/getting-started/ **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm building apps with react native. I'm using nuclide for a little ease in the development process. ### 5. Fantastic Code Editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** Excellent integration with Flow and linters allows problems to be picked up early. Since Nuclide is built on Atom you get to take advantage of the existing ecosystem which includes a wide range of plugins and optional extras to increase your productivity. **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** The Flow integration in Nuclide can be a little slow (though perhaps not a fault of Nuclide itself). Since this product is in active development they are moving very quickly and it can sometimes temporarily break although it is usually easy enough to resolve. The new simplified install mechanism is much easier to work with. **Recommendations to others considering Nuclide:** It's worth taking the time to configure it properly! **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** We now have a unified development solution across all the languages we use. Since this is free open-source software we no longer have to pay for expensive commercial licenses and we benefit from the rapid active development from the community. ### 6. One of the best unified IDE to build robust applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karthik P. | Senior Software Engineer, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** The best thing I like about Nuclide is the fact that I can connect to a remote server and actually edit the files live from the server! It is really fast and lightweight making it a lot better from other heavier IDEs I have worked with before. Being lightweight it does not take too much RAM and processing power making multi-tasking like checking solutions in my browser an easy task. **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** Sometimes intelli-sense is bit slower in resolving dependencies and hence it hampers the typing speed of the code! **Recommendations to others considering Nuclide:** I would surely recommend Nuclide to other fellow developers especially full-stack developers as Nuclide supports varied number of programming languages with powerful intelli-sense and code completion! The easy user interface of the Nuclide makes it easy for even the first time users to use the IDE with ease! **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was trying to build a full fledged web application which solves the problem of expense management at a personal level! Benefits I have realised from using Nuclide is that I do not need to switch between different IDEs if I am working with Frontend or Backend or API part of my application! Full stack developers can easily benefit with multi-language support too! ### 7. Promising but still in early development **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tomin K. | Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2016 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** The remote development functionality: once installed the watchman integration is fully functional and easy to use in taking care of file sync **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** The setup of remote development, especially the interface to manage connections with the server and the poor error codes. **Recommendations to others considering Nuclide:** Be patient with the set up process when connecting to a remote box. Make sure you are using Debian or a Mac. **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** Personal use to learn new technologies and skills without messing up my local machine/environment. ### 8. Nuclide's adventure **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tomás C. | Javascript Specialist Trainer, Education Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** Nuclide is based in ATOM IDE and it contains a lot of plugins that improve the usability and the productivity of the developer that is using it. It's awesome for web development. **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** I have to think why I would to change my current IDE that I use to develop native applications. XCode and Android Studio maybe are not as usable but they have a lot of features that Nuclide leaks off. **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** My main language is Javascript and I was trying to change my current IDE to bust my productivity and it improved a lot, but when I tried it for Mobile Development I saw a lot of problems. ### 9. Nuclide + Flow = Better JS Debugging **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** I use Nuclide for flow, which forces you to cast types, which is pretty nice, and avoids a lot of problems that you might not necessarily test for. **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** Inconsistency with errors is kind of annoying. You could correct an error, and then it disappears, and you'll keep working and it'll be fine, but the next time you open a file, it'll pop up again. **Recommendations to others considering Nuclide:** Use it and switch back if you don't like it, it's free. **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's just nice for faster debugging. ### 10. Interested in Nuclide since its announcement **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** It speeds up react-native production by providing coding assistance **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** It's built on top of Atom, so it naturally inherits Atom's bugs. **Recommendations to others considering Nuclide:** You'll like it at first but if the bugs persist, you may be incline to end use. **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm currently solving web development problems as a Fullstack web developer. I use nodejs coupled with various libraries including react, and react-native. ### 11. Nuclide review **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hsin-lin C. | Senior Front-end Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** I need JavaScript supports, Nuclide is based on Atom and Facebook Open Source. Nice debug integration, but I don't know the best due to high cpu bugs. XD **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** https://github.com/facebook/nuclide/issues/253 Don't work on Mac OSX when I first tried to install it. https://github.com/facebook/nuclide/issues/201 CPU 100% issues... **Recommendations to others considering Nuclide:** Increase the availability of Nuclide IDE. More stable please. Please. Please. **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do full stack web and universal javascript dev. The good IDE will help me working quickly. ### 12. somewhat slow **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose A. | Practicante, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** First: flow, the inspector is very useful for coding javascript, second: mode remote development is very nice too and the project manager. **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** I think that atom is a little slow, but nuclide is more slower, and this is the unique problem for me **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** I generally code javascript, and the benefits are that nuclide is modular, for example: if I don't use hack, I can remove the hack package . ### 13. The Best IDE for React / React Native **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dale J. | Technical Team Leader - Software Development, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2016 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** Flow and ESLint integration helps to find issues early. **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** Performance loading large files could be improved. **Recommendations to others considering Nuclide:** Share you plugins and configurations. **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** We no longer pay for IntelliJ licences. ### 14. Super unstable during early stage but powerful after unifying stage! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** Have tons of handy plug-ins, and some of them are super powerful, used everyday. **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** nuclide-debugger-node never correctly installed even after stable version and clang linter always never works maybe because I am using the latest Xcode? Super super laggy and 100% CPU usage during the early unstable stage. **Recommendations to others considering Nuclide:** Give a try and won't regret. **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to use a text editor like a well developed IDE. ### 15. One of the best IDE to build **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2016 **What do you like best about Nuclide?** It is really fast and lightweight making it a lot better from other IDEs. Infact, I can connect to a remote server and actually edit the files live from the server. **What do you dislike about Nuclide?** Sometimes, it hangs out resulting in opening of various docs or even slow typing. **Recommendations to others considering Nuclide:** I would certainly recommend everyone to give this great IDE a try, **What problems is Nuclide solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working for front end and backend api for my applications. ## Nuclide Discussions - [What is Nuclide used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-nuclide-used-for) - [View Nuclide pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/nuclide/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+22%3A00%3A31+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=89eed103-2cdf-496d-b278-b7f84a097da1&secure%5Btoken%5D=061341decd3fd099ea7cc194160fbbfe8cdd992141f3f36f25e862fc6c78447f&format=llm_user) ## Nuclide Features **Functionality** - Ease of Use - File Management - Multi-Language Support - Customization - Straight-Out-the-Box Functionality - Help Guides - Patching & Updates **Functionality** - Ease of Use - File Management - Multi-Language Support - Customization - Straight-Out-the-Box Functionality - Help Guides - Patching & Updates **Agentic AI - Mobile Development Platforms** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top Nuclide Alternatives - [Visual Studio](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,801 reviews) - [Xcode](https://www.g2.com/products/xcode/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (995 reviews) - [NetBeans](https://www.g2.com/products/netbeans/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (655 reviews)