What programs are best for using HTML, CSS and JS on your PC?

Maybe I should explain why I suggested it. For one in the beginning you are far more likely to do small change iterations and test every time. If you have to save and run from something like VS then open the debuggers etc it wastes a lot of time. In chrome the change will reflect almost instantly.
All the tools are right there all the time. Just changed your for loop to a jQuery each loop? Lets see the performace hit in the profile tab. Or watch my http get message in the network tab.

For me its the ideal environment to learn and you can actually see the effects of changes youve made as well as learn many tools that would make you a better dev as you can see the net effect of what your code has done.
 
Beachless said:
Maybe I should explain why I suggested it. For one in the beginning you are far more likely to do small change iterations and test every time. If you have to save and run from something like VS then open the debuggers etc it wastes a lot of time. In chrome the change will reflect almost instantly.
All the tools are right there all the time. Just changed your for loop to a jQuery each loop? Lets see the performace hit in the profile tab. Or watch my http get message in the network tab.

For me its the ideal environment to learn and you can actually see the effects of changes youve made as well as learn many tools that would make you a better dev as you can see the net effect of what your code has done.
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Sublime open on one screen and chrome on the other screen changes are real-time
 
FarligOpptreden said:
No votes for NetBeans? I find it quite powerful when developing HTML / CSS / JS...
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Powerful but very bloated from what I remember, and slow (unless installed on an SSD).

For basic front-end development, I stick with lightweight editors. I've tried Sublime Text, Notepad++, Atom, VS Code, NetBeans,
Brackets. I've been sticking with Atom these days, unless my app/site is running from a .NET backend, then VS Community edition.
 
Netbeans is slow as balls. I used to use it back in the day but it just got so bad that I had to get rid of it.
 
Nerhzelok said:
Powerful but very bloated from what I remember, and slow (unless installed on an SSD).

For basic front-end development, I stick with lightweight editors. I've tried Sublime Text, Notepad++, Atom, VS Code, NetBeans,
Brackets. I've been sticking with Atom these days, unless my app/site is running from a .NET backend, then VS Community edition.
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I've found NetBeans to be faster than Visual Studio. Don't get me wrong, I've been a Microsoft fan for more than 10 years, but some features in NetBeans just make it incredibly efficient to develop with. I've even mapped my VS "code formatting" shortcut to Alt+Shift+F, because you can do it with one hand, as opposed to Ctrl+K->D.

Honestly, how often do you quit and restart an IDE? I restart it maybe once a week... Even then, on a SSD, NetBeans is fast.
 
I have always used notepad++ but now I know what I have been missing all this time. Linux OS lampp and netbeans 8.1 so fast and efficient. Mostly PHP though
 
I am a .net and RPG dev so I basically live in Visual studio or Eclipse. but....
Simple HTML, Javascript and CSS stuff is a lot faster in notepad++
Been playing around with VisualStudio.Code as well and this is starting to look like the editor of choice for me in future.

edit. I installed Atom now. Looks great.
 
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because I work in ColdFusion I have been using Dreamweaver for like 6 years. its not free, but I really got used to it.

but I can agree on Sublime it has become my second favourite.

and in a few weeks I will be back in Visual Studio again as I am changing languages (finally for those who know me)
 
halfmoonforever said:
HTML, CSS and JS? Notepad. Not even notepadd++
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Silly. Why not use and editor that gives you intellisense, colour queues and previews. And notepad? It doesn't even handle line breaks properly.
 
its like people think they are more "ninja" if they use a worse editor....

I personally prefer to use the most powerful tool required, which will save me time and effort, for the job at hand. This is why I use an SDS hammer drill in concrete, and not a hand operated bore.
 
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