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Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#11

Post by myrryr »

moystard wrote: post #4

I have been a Sublime Text user for quite some time now but I am always interested in open source software, especially when they are built using web technologies. I decided to install Atom.io today and was surprised by the performances, the features (especially through the package system really close in richness to Sublime's) and the overall quality of the editor. For Brackets users out there, how does it compare?

I've been using it for a while and I really like it. I prefer it to Atom or Sublime or Idea (for small projects).

It's nice, it is a fair bit quicker then Atom (which just seem really sluggish on my system).

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#12

Post by kolev »

freshyill wrote: post #9
moystard wrote: post #4

I have been a Sublime Text user for quite some time now but I am always interested in open source software, especially when they are built using web technologies. I decided to install Atom.io today and was surprised by the performances, the features (especially through the package system really close in richness to Sublime's) and the overall quality of the editor. For Brackets users out there, how does it compare?

I've been using Atom for months and I'm getting very frustrated by the slow, buggy performance and utterly terrible autocomplete. I'm giving Brackets a shot because I've heard great things about its autocomplete.

Yeah, autocomplete is a disaster with Atom. Performance is okay for me.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#13

Post by fenomas »

Uehreka wrote: post #10
moystard wrote: post #4

I have been a Sublime Text user for quite some time now but I am always interested in open source software, especially when they are built using web technologies. I decided to install Atom.io today and was surprised by the performances, the features (especially through the package system really close in richness to Sublime's) and the overall quality of the editor. For Brackets users out there, how does it compare?

I've been using it at my job to build prototypes. In general, I'm super-pleased with it, there are only two things that stop it from being awesome: 1. The LiveReload feature stops if you open Chrome DevTools, which I often use to debug. Unfortunately, Brackets' own tools aren't enough to match Chrome DevTools, so I have to work with the LiveReload feature turned off, which is a bummer. I really really hope they fix t…

I believe that "Live Preview" conflicting with Chrome DevTools is a limitation on the Chrome side. Note that the Brackets feature isn't a live "reload" - Brackets pokes into the live DOM and makes changes dynamically, without reloading the page. As I recall, it does this with the same hooks DevTools uses, and Chrome only allows one entity at a time to do such things.

Personally I've gotten in the habit of switching back and forth. I tend to use Live Preview when I'm tweaking layout and design (so much easier than doing things in the inspector and then remembering what changes to reflect in my code), but switching to the browser tools for most script stuff. If Live Preview had a javascript console I suspect I'd hardly use the browser tools..

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#14

Post by kyrra »

Uehreka wrote: post #10
moystard wrote: post #4

I have been a Sublime Text user for quite some time now but I am always interested in open source software, especially when they are built using web technologies. I decided to install Atom.io today and was surprised by the performances, the features (especially through the package system really close in richness to Sublime's) and the overall quality of the editor. For Brackets users out there, how does it compare?

I've been using it at my job to build prototypes. In general, I'm super-pleased with it, there are only two things that stop it from being awesome: 1. The LiveReload feature stops if you open Chrome DevTools, which I often use to debug. Unfortunately, Brackets' own tools aren't enough to match Chrome DevTools, so I have to work with the LiveReload feature turned off, which is a bummer. I really really hope they fix t…

The hour first point, this is a limitation of chrome. They only allow a single debugger to be attached at once. As dev tools and livereload both count as debuggers you can only have 1 active.

Dart has the same issue I believe when connected to their dartium browser.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#17

Post by prawn »

Does anyone use the Extract feature? I canned my Creative Cloud after Adobe were hacked, but do a lot of Photoshop work and then building templates from PSDs. Is it as useful as they proclaim? If so, I might need to create a new account.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#18

Post by moystard »

myrryr wrote: post #11
moystard wrote: post #4

I have been a Sublime Text user for quite some time now but I am always interested in open source software, especially when they are built using web technologies. I decided to install Atom.io today and was surprised by the performances, the features (especially through the package system really close in richness to Sublime's) and the overall quality of the editor. For Brackets users out there, how does it compare?

I've been using it for a while and I really like it. I prefer it to Atom or Sublime or Idea (for small projects). It's nice, it is a fair bit quicker then Atom (which just seem really sluggish on my system).

When I had first installed Atom a few months back, I had performance issues as well, but it does not seem to be the case anymore with all the work they put in the editor's performance last summer.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#19

Post by moystard »

Uehreka wrote: post #10
moystard wrote: post #4

I have been a Sublime Text user for quite some time now but I am always interested in open source software, especially when they are built using web technologies. I decided to install Atom.io today and was surprised by the performances, the features (especially through the package system really close in richness to Sublime's) and the overall quality of the editor. For Brackets users out there, how does it compare?

I've been using it at my job to build prototypes. In general, I'm super-pleased with it, there are only two things that stop it from being awesome: 1. The LiveReload feature stops if you open Chrome DevTools, which I often use to debug. Unfortunately, Brackets' own tools aren't enough to match Chrome DevTools, so I have to work with the LiveReload feature turned off, which is a bummer. I really really hope they fix t…

I often use Grunt or Gulp for my projects along with the connect/livereload plugins so that's not critical to me when choosing an editor.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#20

Post by computerjunkie »

freshyill wrote: post #9
moystard wrote: post #4

I have been a Sublime Text user for quite some time now but I am always interested in open source software, especially when they are built using web technologies. I decided to install Atom.io today and was surprised by the performances, the features (especially through the package system really close in richness to Sublime's) and the overall quality of the editor. For Brackets users out there, how does it compare?

I've been using Atom for months and I'm getting very frustrated by the slow, buggy performance and utterly terrible autocomplete. I'm giving Brackets a shot because I've heard great things about its autocomplete.

Agreed, Atom is still a diamond in dirt, its just waiting to be polished and then I will try It out. Brackets does the "little" details right. Everything feels good about Brackets and seems to get out of your way. If you are a front end developer then definitely have a go at it.
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