Brackets vs CodeMirror

Overview

Brackets

Stacks450

Followers752

Votes202

GitHub Stars33.1K

Forks7.6K

CodeMirror

Stacks747

Followers232

Votes15

Brackets vs CodeMirror: What are the differences?

What is Brackets? A modern, open source text editor that understands web design. With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. Try Creative Cloud Extract (preview) for Brackets for an easy way to get clean, minimal CSS straight from a PSD with no generated code.

What is CodeMirror? In-browser code editor used in the dev tools for both Firefox and Chrome, Light Table, Adobe Brackets, Bitbucket, and many other projects. CodeMirror is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser. When a mode is available for the language you are coding in, it will color your code, and optionally help with indentation.

Brackets and CodeMirror can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.

Some of the features offered by Brackets are:

Code Hints from a PSD
Inline Editors
Live Preview

On the other hand, CodeMirror provides the following key features:

Support for over 60 languages out of the box
A powerful, composable language mode system
Autocompletion (XML)

"Beautiful UI" is the top reason why over 46 developers like Brackets, while over 3 developers mention "Integrable in your application" as the leading cause for choosing CodeMirror.

Brackets and CodeMirror are both open source tools. It seems that Brackets with 29.9K GitHub stars and 6.42K forks on GitHub has more adoption than CodeMirror with 18K GitHub stars and 3.92K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Brackets has a broader approval, being mentioned in 36 company stacks & 32 developers stacks; compared to CodeMirror, which is listed in 24 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Lightweight and versatile. Huge library of extensions that enable you to integrate a host of services to your development environment. VS Code's biggest strength is its library of extensions which enables it to directly compete with every single major IDE for almost all major programming languages.

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Detailed Comparison

Brackets	CodeMirror
With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, it is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser.	CodeMirror is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser. When a mode is available for the language you are coding in, it will color your code, and optionally help with indentation.
Code Hints from a PSD;Inline Editors;Live Preview;Preprocessor Support	Support for over 60 languages out of the box;A powerful, composable language mode system;Autocompletion (XML);Code folding;Configurable keybindings;Vim, Emacs, and Sublime Text bindings;Search and replace interface;Bracket and tag matching;Support for split views;Linter integration;Mixing font sizes and styles;Various themes;Able to resize to fit content;Inline and block widgets;Programmable gutters;Making ranges of text styled, read-only, or atomic;Bi-directional text support
Statistics
GitHub Stars 33.1K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 7.6K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 450	Stacks 747
Followers 752	Followers 232
Votes 202	Votes 15
Pros & Cons
Pros 51 Beautiful UI 40 Lightweight 25 Extremely customizable 20 Free plugins 14 Live Preview Cons 3 Not good for backend developer 1 You have to edit json file to set your settings. 1 Bad node.js support	Pros 6 Integrable in your application 4 Better content manipulation methods 3 Easy Custom Mode 1 JavaScript based 1 Easy setup
Integrations
JavaScript Node.js Adobe Photoshop Adobe Dreamweaver	Google Chrome Sublime Text Opera Browser Safari Vim Emacs Firefox

What are some alternatives to Brackets, CodeMirror?

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.

Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Vim

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

Neovim

Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: simplify maintenance and encourage contributions, split the work between multiple developers, enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source, and improve extensibility with a new plugin architecture.

VSCodium

It is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode.

TextMate

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.