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Re: Brackets, a code editor

#61

>> 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?

We use bog standard HTML with custom data- attributes (whose intention is pretty much obvious) and our binding library automagically populates it. So the learning-curve for people joining the project is basically... "do you know HTML?"

Want a span to show the live content of foo.bar.baz? .

Re: Brackets, a code editor

#62

Anyone else surprised they aren't using Adobe AIR for this project? Are they just abandoning it or is CEF3 the new AIR?

This I'd like to know. Honest question, does it use flash in any form? What language is it coded in? I see JS everywhere but how is it run?

Re: Brackets, a code editor

#63

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.

I used to like Coda, but version 2 lost me. And when I'm working right off the server, I prefer Transmit + a real editor.

Re: Brackets, a code editor

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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?

Best I could find: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=129539

Re: Brackets, a code editor

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Sublime Text + SFTP plugin will let you do this.

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

If by local you mean temp working file, that's a given isn't it? 'Save' still saves it remotely.

However, if the (S)FTP connection is broken and reconnected you can't continue in the same editor, you need to re-open it again which frustrates me.

Re: Brackets, a code editor

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>> 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?

What kind of templates do you mean? e.g. Wordpress? Underscore? Bootstrap?

Re: Brackets, a code editor

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>> 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…

I'm sure it wouldn't be a stretch to write an extension for Brackets that allows you to handle templates more effectively.

On another note, you'd be surprised how many people are still doing pure vanilla. Preprocessing isn't usually part of a beginners toolchain, you gotta learn the underlying part first before you start grafting on the preprocessors used in larger projects.

Re: Brackets, a code editor

#68

Anyone else surprised they aren't using Adobe AIR for this project? Are they just abandoning it or is CEF3 the new AIR?

I'm not surprised. Adobe have been pushing Air for years, nobody really likes it, I hate installing it, and the App performance is often sub-par.

By contrast Brackets feels very native. For once corporate policy didn't get in the way of building something cool!

Re: Brackets, a code editor

#69

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…

impatient-mode for emacs.

http://www.50ply.com/blog/2012/08/13/introducing-impatient-m... http://danielsz.github.io/2014/01/20/Live-coding-with-Clojur...

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