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Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

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Post by talmand »

It's been a fun and strange ride with this editor. I've been using it for a while now, I think before the Sprint 20 build. It still has some things to work out and new features it needs, but it's a solid editor for front-end coding.

It's been really fun writing extensions for it, gets me out of my comfort zone of working on websites all day. Really great that once I realize I want the editor to offer something I can just open it and create the feature myself using my current skill sets.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#32

Post by snsr »

talmand wrote: post #30
snsr wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only does it assign itself as the default application for a number of common file types, it does so every time you start the application . Which is why I uninstalled it months ago, though if this has been fixed I may give it another shot.

Odd, I've never noticed this behavior before. I just installed the new version and it didn't take over any file types for me. I'm currently using it on Windows, maybe it's a Mac thing?

Could be, I last tried Brackets a while ago (and on OSX). I suppose as this thread is discussing 1.0 I should give it another try!

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#33

Post by usermac »

colinramsay wrote: post #3

The default link to 1.0 includes something called "Extract". I don't want Extract. Yes, there's a link to just download Brackets underneath this primary button, but given Adobe's form with packaging unnecessary cruft with their software I'd have thought they'd be trying to avoid this sort of nonsense.

I see on the http://brackets.io website, just below the download button there is a link to a version without Extract.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#34

Post by pspeter3 »

pingec wrote: post #6

Lately it has become my editor of choice for JavaScript, TypeScript and MarkDown on Windows. I use a few extensions for linting and live preview and so far they work really well. I hope the startup gets faster with time because that's the only downside I can currently think of. Being open source and cross platform is a big advantage, if I invest time into learning a tool I'd like to be able to use it regardless which…

Do you have strong TypeScript tooling? I feel like that is the biggest reason for me to use IntelliJ right now.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

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Post by daemonfire300 »

I never get it when people try to reinvent the wheel with JavaScript. Especially on the desktop. Please show me real world benchmarks, where JS apps are not extremely bad in comparison to C++,C# whatever static typed compiled languages.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#36

Post by moystard »

benologist wrote: post #24
moystard wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In my experience atom is really slow at regex find/replace + reindexing projects with lots of files each time you open them. It's going to be nice one day though.

For now my biggest frustration is that Atom does not 'remember' the files/folders I was working on the last time I had it opened, and the Reopen last item does not seem to work at startup.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#37

Post by dangoor »

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…

As others mentioned, you can't use the Chrome dev tools and Live Preview at the same time is because of a limitation in Chrome. We're working on changing how Live Preview works to support different browses and also enable the use of browser tools. It's available as an extension here:

https://github.com/njx/brackets-livedev2

We haven't decided on how to handle things like Theseus yet.

Re: Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

#38

Post by prawn »

fenomas wrote: post #21
prawn wrote: post #17

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.

Extract is pretty brand new, so not so many people yet, but I've played with some previous incarnations (it was previously beta'd as a standalone web service). That said, it's damned handy if you're turning a PSD comp into HTML/CSS. That's the use case it was made for - smoothing the workflow between the PSD-making designer and the HTML-writing coder. If a PSD comp has, say, a button with a gradient and a drop shadow…

Thanks fenomas.

I make the PSDs and (along with my employee) cut them to HTML/CSS so it sounds like this could be helpful. I'll give it a shot.

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