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Monaco Editor

A browser based code editor
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What is Monaco Editor?

The Monaco Editor is the code editor that powers VS Code. It is licensed under the MIT License and supports IE 9/10/11, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
Monaco Editor is a tool in the Text Editor category of a tech stack.
Monaco Editor is an open source tool with 38K GitHub stars and 3.4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Monaco Editor's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Monaco Editor?

Companies
6 companies reportedly use Monaco Editor in their tech stacks, including IWB, Appitr, and front-end.

Developers
50 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Monaco Editor.

Monaco Editor Integrations

Visual Studio Code, Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Safari are some of the popular tools that integrate with Monaco Editor. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Monaco Editor.
Pros of Monaco Editor
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Out of the Box Intellisense
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More features than Ace
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Power vscode, with all it's features
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Microsoft Product
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Accessibility
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Good support for none-monospace fonts

Monaco Editor Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Monaco Editor?
CodeMirror
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Monaco Editor's Followers
170 developers follow Monaco Editor to keep up with related blogs and decisions.