[NhanH]

They have well supported API to push your code into it (alongs with gulp/ grunt package to do so, I think).

So you can work in your favourite environment and just "deploy" the code as normal, or am I missing anything?

[libc]

I admittedly haven't explored it in great detail, but when I've asked on their Slack channel a lot of people seem to just use the ingame tools which are "good enough".

[tedivm]

I think there may be a misunderstanding there. The community has built a ton of third party tools ( https://github.com/screepers ) and even has it's own alliance tracking site ( http://www.leagueofautomatednations.com/ ). I can't imagine anyone just using the ingame tools.

[kotarou]

Can confirm, the community tools are awesome. If someone is only playing using ingame, without any of the external stuff, I feel they are missing a large portion of the game.

[ggrochow]

that is correct, also a GH integration, so you can have it reload your code as you push updates a github repo.