Brackets by Adobe
A modern, open source text editor that understands web design.
According to Adobe, Brackets is a “A modern, open source text editor that understands web design.” From playing around with Brackets, I have found that it did almost everything I wanted to do. Compared to Atom, Brackets has great support with connecting to remote machines and editing files within those machines.
Features:
- Live preview
- JavaScript Debugging
- Extract
- Highly extendable
- Maintained for 8 months
- Cross platform support
- Free and open source
As you can see above, this is only a short list of what is available for developers. From my experience, this has been the most interesting project to follow, but of course it’s up to you what text editor you decide to use. In this series I will be using Brackets + Vim mode, but any other editor should work fine.
From the first looks at the Atom text editor might have you thinking that it’s a text editor for designers. Although this is how the text editor is marketed, don’t be too quick to judge it. Brackets is a lightweight editor built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript with web development as its prime focus. The editor itself is hosted on github with 22,790 stars. That’s 4,186 more than Atom. Not to mention that’s its only 8 months old compared to Atom at 16 months!
The main reason why Brackets is my current go-to text editor is because it’s a tool that does not get in the way of what you want to do with panels, icons, shorthand codes, slow O/I reads and writes. It just does what it supposed to do, which is to help you write more and more every time.
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