Brackets, a code editor • Hacker News Board

hawkharris wrote: post #7

I downloaded the editor about two weeks ago. It's fun and easy to use. My only criticism is of the live editing feature. That's what drew me to the editor in the first place, but it seems to be very buggy. It stops updating the preview sporadically — and predictably, each time I open the JS Console. As a front-end dev, I can't really count on a preview that doesn't function with developer tools open. Having said all…

It's a bug (design decision) of Chrome. Only 1 debugger can be attached to Chrome at any given time. So if you have Brackets live preview enabled, you cannot use the developer tools within chrome.

This is an issue with other tools that try to attach to Chrome to do this type of work. Sadly, Chrome doesn't see it as a big enough issue to fix.

Re: Brackets, a code editor

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Post by tieTYT » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 11:10 PM UTC

With so many transpiled JS languages, this seems like a tough space to be in. I wouldn't use this until it works with CoffeeScript. My friend won't until it works with ClojureScript, etc. Maybe there's a simple solution I haven't thought of? But it seems like the inline editors would be modifying the generated source instead of the actual source.

Re: Brackets, a code editor

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Post by dubcanada » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 11:16 PM UTC

trycatch wrote: post #17

The deal-breaking problem I have under Linux with editors based on node-webkit like Brackets and Light Table -- for some reason they don't use subpixel rendering, making all text extremely blurry. Maybe it's that issue https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/issues/734 , but I'm not sure. Anyway, I am not aware about any workaround, and just can't use them in their current state.

Brackets is not based on node-webkit. Brackets is based on CEF3 which is a API exposing library that uses Chromium. Node-webkit uses Chromium as well. So it's most likely chromium that is the issue.

Re: Brackets, a code editor

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Post by dubcanada » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 11:16 PM UTC

heydenberk wrote: post #19

>> Live HTML Development >> As you code, HTML changes are instantly pushed to browser without having to save or reload the page. Who actually writes non-templated HTML any more?

Me, and all my coworkers.

Re: Brackets, a code editor

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Post by AnotherDesigner » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 11:18 PM UTC

I really like Brackets. And it's got some great plugins already. I've set mine up with a visual git sidebar, markdown preview, themes and a mini-map like Sublime Text has.

Re: Brackets, a code editor

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Post by sejje » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 11:19 PM UTC

BlackDeath3 wrote: post #25

heydenberk wrote: post #19

>> Live HTML Development >> As you code, HTML changes are instantly pushed to browser without having to save or reload the page. Who actually writes non-templated HTML any more?

Any time I've ever written HTML (which hasn't happened often) it's always been in a text editor, raw. Then again, I'm clearly not exactly a web developer.

That's a different thing.

Templated, as in "this html isn't coming from a rails partial" etc.

Re: Brackets, a code editor

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Post by BlackDeath3 » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 11:20 PM UTC

sejje wrote: post #39

BlackDeath3 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any time I've ever written HTML (which hasn't happened often) it's always been in a text editor, raw. Then again, I'm clearly not exactly a web developer.

That's a different thing. Templated, as in "this html isn't coming from a rails partial" etc.

I think I'm in over my head now. I've never even used Rails and know almost nothing about it.