Codekit 2 is out

#1

Post by sebgeelen » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 8:53 AM UTC

Codekit 2 is out
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Re: Codekit 2 is out

#2

Post by TobbenTM » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 9:52 AM UTC

Reading the testimonies made me wonder if this whole thing was a joke or not.

Looks cool otherwise though...

Re: Codekit 2 is out

#3

Post by imwhimsical » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 9:58 AM UTC

TobbenTM wrote: post #2

Reading the testimonies made me wonder if this whole thing was a joke or not. Looks cool otherwise though...

So it isn't a joke?

Re: Codekit 2 is out

#4

Post by igvadaimon » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 10:00 AM UTC

I'm currently using gulp + browserify, it's basically the same set of features (modules, compilation, livereload), but free.

Maybe a little more configuration necessary though.

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#5

Post by bulte-rs » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 10:03 AM UTC

TobbenTM wrote: post #2

Reading the testimonies made me wonder if this whole thing was a joke or not. Looks cool otherwise though...

Are you kidding me?

The testimonials give the whola page a somewhat human touch. I - for one - am now pondering if there really is a story behind the "Mad at me since 2008" stuff about Apple's legal department :P

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Post by beaker52 » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 10:13 AM UTC

TobbenTM wrote: post #2

Reading the testimonies made me wonder if this whole thing was a joke or not. Looks cool otherwise though...

I think it's trying to parody itself.

I remember the days when I thought tools like this were cool. Like Coda for example.

CLI tools don't need to parody themselves, they're usually free, cross platform and I can retire them quickly because I don't feel overtly attached to them.

Re: Codekit 2 is out

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Post by hartator » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 10:17 AM UTC

A few thoughts:

  - 2min and 54secondes of demo video to explain the localhost address. Sooo, boring.
  - At first, it sounded like another text editor but it's not.
  - It seems that's just a GUI skin to CLI tools

Re: Codekit 2 is out

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Post by ethana » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 10:36 AM UTC

"A Mac App for Cool People"

Did they really have to resort to a level that low?

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Post by sideproject » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 10:45 AM UTC

Set aside a few strange things you find on this website (e.g. testimonies sound fake...), CodeKit is an excellent program, I've been using for a few years.

GruntJS and Gulp essentially do the same thing of course, but CodeKit I guess 'interfaces' all those text-based configurations and once it's configured, well, it's pretty much done and you can just let it run in the background and forget about it.

Highly recommend it!

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Post by jwarren » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 11:25 AM UTC

Codekit is a beautiful, comprehensive and powerful solution for those who don't want to/don't feel comfortable setting up Grunt or Gulp. If you're one of those people, it comes highly recommended.