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Oh and he's built an awesome product that makes my life so much easier... and he doesn't demand I pay the earth for it. #win
This URL crashes Chrome on iOS.
"A Mac App for Cool People" Did they really have to resort to a level that low?
I really don't see the value of having the compile toolchain in your editor. If you are making a serious front-end project, you will have created a gulp/grunt based workflow so that anyone with node installed can compile it. If you rely on Codekit's features, surely you're locking people into that editor? Is it really so hard to open a command window and run a single command?
You grossly underestimate the number of solo/freelance web developers out there who just want to get to work on the project itself, instead of learning and setting up all those things (which may be overkill for their one-person project). "Effort vs. Result" is an important metric, and Codekit lets you just "get it done" without needing to learn how to install and set up grunt or gulp, node (edit: and uglify-js, bower…
I like what I'm seeing, however the main gripe I have is that it doesn't seem to be cross-platform; it looks like it's a GUI for Grunt configuration (it seems to have similar options) though. Compare Maven / Ant / Gradle for the Java world, instead of builds configured in the IDE; said IDE's often have a GUI component for major build configuration files. I wouldn't mind a GUI for Grunt configs, without sensible code…
I really don't see the value of having the compile toolchain in your editor. If you are making a serious front-end project, you will have created a gulp/grunt based workflow so that anyone with node installed can compile it. If you rely on Codekit's features, surely you're locking people into that editor? Is it really so hard to open a command window and run a single command?
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
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…