A nice IDE for ASP / HTML / JavaScript

tonyyeb · 12 Apr 2010 at 09:26

Hi all

After years of using Notepad for my web development I have decided to try some IDE's. The best so far is Notepad++ but not matter what changes or styles I import, it doesn't handle the mix of ASP / HTML / JavaScript very well.

Is there a better alternative or is there a way to get it to work as well as it does PHP / HTML / JavaScript?!

Thanks in advance

Randomface74 · 12 Apr 2010 at 09:31

I use Notepad++ at work for ASP/HTML/JS/Vb and find it okay. I really like the feature where if you double click a word it will highlight all instances of the same word.

Another one I've used in the past is EditPlus. It's been a while since I used it, but if it's still going it's probably a good option.

tonyyeb · 12 Apr 2010 at 09:34

It is 90% there. But in PHP mode it shows loops opening and closing but then I guess with the curly brackets it is easier for it to see than with ASP.

Dj_Jestar · 12 Apr 2010 at 11:01

http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general/which-editor-should-i-use-for-developing-asp-applications.html

tonyyeb · 12 Apr 2010 at 11:03

Dj_Jestar said:
http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general/which-editor-should-i-use-for-developing-asp-applications.html

Thanks I've tried a few from that list in the past and Notepad++ came out the best.

unknowndomain · 12 Apr 2010 at 14:24

Have you looked at Eclipse, thats popular with Java and C developers, and I personally use Coda which is a really nice all in one IDE with FTP, CSS, and HTML editing, and it supports PHP and ASP syntax.

tonyyeb · 12 Apr 2010 at 14:25

You know, I never even considered it. I liked it when I was dabbling with Android. Time to redownload

unknowndomain · 12 Apr 2010 at 14:27

I have never used Eclipse because I never have the time/use XCode for mac dev so I am tempted to revisit this for processing project I have coming up though.

I cannot recommend Coda enough though.