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James Robertson
James Robertson
1,934 Points
Posted by James Robertson
James Robertson
1,934 Points

Best app for coding websites on windows and mac

Hi guys, I have started getting through the web design track and I am really enjoying it. So far I have only been using the workspace editor to write and view my code. Once I have finished my learning with treehouse what are the best apps to use on both mac and windows to write code and view it for websites? For example x-code (the only one i guess) to be able to code for applications on iOS. Thanks :)

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Josiah Dawley
Josiah Dawley
9,129 Points

As far as I know Xcode is the only software that you can create iOS applications on.

As for text editors, many people recommend Sublime Text. I personally like Brackets by Adobe a lot! It is easy to use and is open source. It has a preview function that works with Google Chrome, which allows you to preview your website without having to hit save and refresh each time an edit is made.

Hope this helps!

James Robertson
James Robertson
1,934 Points
James Robertson
James Robertson
1,934 Points

Thanks Josiah! Brackets does look good I'll have a play around! :)

Leo Picado
Leo Picado
9,182 Points
Leo Picado
Leo Picado
9,182 Points

I'm a big JetBrains fan jetbrains.com I currently use IntelliJ for everything but iOS work, I use Xcode for that, their products are a bit pricey, specially if you are not used to invest on this kind of things, but I believe it's a good investment, it really depends on what you want out of an editor.

This is how I got to use IntelliJ:

  • I used VIM for like 3 years, it's pretty good, runs everywhere, super flexible, but takes a hard time to learn all the bindings and I felt like I was missing out on being more productive with a more formal text editor.
  • So I switched to SublimeText, this simplified a LOT of things, file opening, plugins, etc. it was really good until I started to work on things that were outside my usual HTML/CSS/JS projects where I knew the syntax real well and needed all the help I could get
  • That made me move to a WebStorm trial where I found nirvana, it was extensible, fast, super transparent about updates, which was one of the things that really bugged me about SublimeText, it's just one guy working on it and the last stable version was released over a year ago, I don't mind paying for my tools but I want to feel like I get my money's worth, I didn't feel like that with SublimeText.
  • I ended up broadening the range of things I do, it used to be just HTML/CSS/JS now it's Java, PHP, some Python along with the first 3 guys, so I wanted a single IDE that could give me all of that without having to re-learn all the bindings again, so IntelliJ was the weapon of choice.

So that's my personal experience, I'm sure people will disagree with some of the points but, the biggest advice I can tell you is, pick what matters to you, invest time and effort into learning it and evaluate your decision after.