What is 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.
CodeMirror is a tool in the Text Editor category of a tech stack.
CodeMirror is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to CodeMirror's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses CodeMirror?
Companies
158 companies reportedly use CodeMirror in their tech stacks, including Deloitte, Morgan Stanley, and Flutterwave.
Developers
202 developers on StackShare have stated that they use CodeMirror.
CodeMirror Integrations
Sublime Text, Vim, Emacs, Firefox, and Google Chrome are some of the popular tools that integrate with CodeMirror. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with CodeMirror.
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CodeMirror's Features
- 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
CodeMirror Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to CodeMirror?
Ace
Ace is a standalone code editor written in JavaScript. Our goal is to create a browser based editor that matches and extends the features, usability and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, Vim or Eclipse. It can be easily embedded in any web page or JavaScript application.
TinyMCE
It is the most advanced WYSWIYG HTML editor designed to simplify website content creation. The rich text editing platform that helped launch Atlassian, Medium, Evernote, and more.
Prism
It is a lightweight, beautiful and extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind. It’s used in thousands of websites, including some of those you visit daily.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
