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Re: Brackets, a code editor

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Will this be part of Creative Cloud eventually?

There's Adobe Edge Code CC - I thought that these were pretty much off the same code base?

They are. Brackets was presented at a local js meetup a little more than a year ago; Edge code is one of the primary reasons why adobe is running this project.

Re: Brackets, a code editor

#53
post #34

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.

Is there a bug on crbug.com?

Re: Brackets, a code editor

#54
post #34

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.

Couldn't you set up a proxy that handles the multiple connections and keeps the clients in sync?

Re: Brackets, a code editor

#56

>> 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?

I've gotta agree with you here. If you are a professional developer and are still writing non-templated html, I'd be surprised. I think it's crazy that all these tools keep coming out for handling vanilla html and css, while the development community is busy shooting miles ahead with far more powerful preprocessing. I'm working very heavily on convenience tools for advanced dev workflows, hopefully these will bring a similar level of excitement for devs who preprocess.

Re: Brackets, a code editor

#57

>> 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?

Front-end-wise, if you are jumping between projects, it's often easier to just build a static 1page of what you are trying to build instead of having it run through some kind of framework.

If you have an established project, then sure, you probably already have your views setup.

It would be really cool if Brackets could detect that you are working on a partial and inject that back into the page somehow

Re: Brackets, a code editor

#58

As a dirty prototyping pseudo-dev, the one thing that keeps me using Coda is its native ftp/scp capabilities. I can open files on a remote server as if they were local and command-s saves them back there. Right now it seems that none of these other editors support that function. I know I can run ssh-fs or similar, but that requires much more setup.

Sublime Text + SFTP plugin will let you do this.

I've tried it. Requires a local copy of the files - I found it messy.

Re: Brackets, a code editor

#59

As a dirty prototyping pseudo-dev, the one thing that keeps me using Coda is its native ftp/scp capabilities. I can open files on a remote server as if they were local and command-s saves them back there. Right now it seems that none of these other editors support that function. I know I can run ssh-fs or similar, but that requires much more setup.

try cyberduck. you can set the default editor for remote files.

Still not as friendly as a single app.
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