Your favourite text editor for webdev?

mid_gen · 10 Apr 2017 at 09:18

Don't do a lot of web work, but have had a few JS tools to write recently. Visual Studio Code for me....really evolving nicely.

wywywywy · 10 Apr 2017 at 12:17

Gave Atom another go last night.

It's pretty nice, but I kind of wish there's a icon toolbar at the top. Having to do Ctrl-S or Ctrl-/ etc is a bit difficult with one hand... A lot of my night time programming involves rocking the baby to sleep with my left arm

Trying Visual Studio Code next!

Dup · 10 Apr 2017 at 12:27

wywywywy said:
Gave Atom another go last night.

It's pretty nice, but I kind of wish there's a icon toolbar at the top. Having to do Ctrl-S or Ctrl-/ etc is a bit difficult with one hand... A lot of my night time programming involves rocking the baby to sleep with my left arm

Trying Visual Studio Code next!

https://atom.io/packages/tool-bar

There's pretty much a plugin for everything with Atom. May need some customisation but looks simple enough.

wywywywy · 10 Apr 2017 at 12:30

Wow oh my days thanks that's very nice it's just what I'm looking for!

xbenjiiman · 11 Apr 2017 at 11:01

VSCode for JavaScript, Atom for anything else.

jakspyder · 11 Apr 2017 at 23:23

jebrains IDE for heavy work (phpstorm, pycharm etc) and sublime for light work, atom is great too. They're all skinned and keymapped the same too.

djkav · 12 Apr 2017 at 15:05

VS Code for any simple text file stuff. VS Studio 2017 for any development stuff.

I still have a soft spot for Dreamweaver. It was the web designers editor of choice. So I ended up using that for classic ASP and PHP in the late 90s/early 2000s. When the deisgners used to complain that I screwed up their designs

without it.

Dynix · 13 Apr 2017 at 09:35

Sublime Text 3 but I've started using VS Code and can see me moving over to it fully.

pedromaltez · 13 Apr 2017 at 13:28

Can't image using anything other than Sublime Text 3 at this point. The shortcuts are amazing, and you really can't beat the plugin ecosystem that's built up around it.

InfiniteNoise · 17 Apr 2017 at 16:58

I've been using Atom for years now, it's pretty decent with plugins, was using Sublime Text before that.

I occasionally use Vim, just so I don't forget the keybindings, I should get around to adding powerline + some plugins and try to stick with it.

MoDe · 20 Apr 2017 at 14:25

Started using Git+TFS with Brackets and it seems to be spot on for version control.

McBain · 25 Apr 2017 at 21:51

Sublime text.

Itchytrigg · 26 Apr 2017 at 11:19

This thread inspired me to try something new so grabbed atom. Was initially really impressed however there's a couple of issues meaning i cannot switch over, so wondering what would a good alternative without the same issues? My work environment provides access to our linux boxes over samba or I can grab files up through sftp.

Over samba, Atom cannot perform...it's laggy and appears to re-read the whole directory when you alt-tab around, this is a known issue but I saw no solution to it.

Over sftp, each file I open opens a new window, you cannot get it to open within in the same instance as a new tab.

wywywywy · 2 May 2017 at 14:16

Been using VS Code based on you lot's recommendation, and so far I'm liking it more than Atom

Was originally reluctant because, well, Microsoft, but I'm pleasantly surprised!

Poolybit · 3 May 2017 at 08:19

wywywywy said:
Been using VS Code based on you lot's recommendation, and so far I'm liking it more than Atom

Was originally reluctant because, well, Microsoft, but I'm pleasantly surprised!

I can understand the Microsoft reluctance but they have made some interesting moves over there in certain areas with visual studio code, dotnetcore and linux releases of server software...If it means getting intellisense on a multi language tool like VS Code and being able to run dotnetcore applications in C# natively on linux, I'm down!

GravyMonster · 3 May 2017 at 09:28

Visual Studio. Failing that Notepad++ on Windows and Sublime on OSX.

JamesM · 10 May 2017 at 20:52

Sublime 3 here

https://laracasts.com/series/sublime-text-mastery

Willir · 11 May 2017 at 13:37

Netbeans IDE

DarrenM343 · 11 Jun 2017 at 11:58

kwerk said:
I'm liking Visual Studio Code at the moment. Took me a while to realize it's made by MS. Literally the only MS thing I use these days.

Why's that? Hope not one of these old fashioned anti-MS people

. Those days are gone
MS is a great company these days producing some very good software. I recently joined a company and have managed to kick up dust by questioning why they've gone down the open source route for some things when they're already quite a Microsoft based software house. Turns out hired some new joiners who just wanted to use open source software which is stupid. So I joined immediately picking up the tools the company had (MS) and find out others are doing it differently with open source tools.
I use Visual Studio Enterprise/Ultimate and nothing compares. Open source only gets you so far, £ gets you the rest of the way. Until the day we work for free nobody can really argue with that IMO

Hades · 11 Jun 2017 at 13:20

I've started using Sublime 3 and love it so far.

DarrenM343 said:
Open source only gets you so far, £ gets you the rest of the way. Until the day we work for free nobody can really argue with that IMO

The vast majority of web servers and appliances would argue with you.

Your favourite text editor for webdev?

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