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Posted by Perry Clark
Perry Clark
8,261 Points

IDE workflow

I am currently using Coda 2, it has everything that I need from an IDE except the only useful feature that Dreamweaver has... The ability to click the preview pane and it highlights the relevant HTML in the code editor.

As an Email Developer, this really speeds up the process and makes life a lot easier when drowned in all that email tabular data.

I am interested in ways that other devs find the code they are looking for from their preview browser window. Does anybody have a workflow that they can share with me to speed up preview to code process?

1 Answer

Ari Misha
Ari Misha
19,323 Points
Ari Misha
Ari Misha
19,323 Points

Hiya there! I mostly use 5 IDEs: RubyMine, WebStorm, IntelliJ IDEA, Atom and Sublime Text. So professional IDEs like RubyMine or WebStorm or IntelliJ IDEA are really awesome if you have like big project and you want everything in just one code editor. You could even deploy and Continous Integrate from these IDEs. But sometimes i want something simple and lightweight, Sublime Text3 comes to the rescue. But with sublime text3 , you've to switch between terminal , browsers, Git and IDE itself. But whenever im coding something front-end i use Atom. And Atom has this package called atom-live-server. As the name suggests, it reloads your changes in browser as soon as you save your code. Also it offers a split screen between code editor and the browser and chrome DevTools. I just find it really cool, hassle free , time saving and dope.

~ Ari