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  5. Flow (JS) vs Visual Studio

Flow (JS) vs Visual Studio

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Overview

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
Stacks59.6K
Followers37.9K
Votes1.1K
Flow (JS)
Flow (JS)
Stacks145
Followers75
Votes0
GitHub Stars22.2K
Forks1.9K

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Detailed Comparison

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
Flow (JS)
Flow (JS)

Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications.

Flow is a static type checker for Javascript created by Facebook.

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Type Inference; Easy Integration; Realtime Feedback
Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
22.2K
GitHub Forks
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GitHub Forks
1.9K
Stacks
59.6K
Stacks
145
Followers
37.9K
Followers
75
Votes
1.1K
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 305
    Intellisense, ui
  • 244
    Complete ide and debugger
  • 165
    Plug-ins
  • 104
    Integrated
  • 93
    Documentation
Cons
  • 16
    Bulky
  • 14
    Made by Microsoft
  • 6
    Sometimes you need to restart to finish an update
  • 3
    Too much size for disk
  • 3
    Only avalible on Windows
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What are some alternatives to Visual Studio, Flow (JS)?

PhpStorm

PhpStorm

PhpStorm is a PHP IDE which keeps up with latest PHP & web languages trends, integrates a variety of modern tools, and brings even more extensibility with support for major PHP frameworks.

IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA

Out of the box, IntelliJ IDEA provides a comprehensive feature set including tools and integrations with the most important modern technologies and frameworks for enterprise and web development with Java, Scala, Groovy and other languages.

CoffeeScript

CoffeeScript

It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehension and de-structuring assignment.

WebStorm

WebStorm

WebStorm is a lightweight and intelligent IDE for front-end development and server-side JavaScript.

NetBeans IDE

NetBeans IDE

NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.

TypeScript

TypeScript

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

Pug

Pug

This project was formerly known as "Jade." Pug is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers.

PyCharm

PyCharm

PyCharm’s smart code editor provides first-class support for Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, CSS, popular template languages and more. Take advantage of language-aware code completion, error detection, and on-the-fly code fixes!

Eclipse

Eclipse

Standard Eclipse package suited for Java and plug-in development plus adding new plugins; already includes Git, Marketplace Client, source code and developer documentation. Click here to file a bug against Eclipse Platform.

Android Studio

Android Studio

Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. It provides new features and improvements over Eclipse ADT and will be the official Android IDE once it's ready.

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