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Brackets vs gulp: 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 gulp? The streaming build system. Build system automating tasks: minification and copying of all JavaScript files, static images. More capable of watching files to automatically rerun the task when a file changes.
Brackets belongs to "Text Editor" category of the tech stack, while gulp can be primarily classified under "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners".
Some of the features offered by Brackets are:
- Code Hints from a PSD
- Inline Editors
- Live Preview
On the other hand, gulp provides the following key features:
- By preferring code over configuration, gulp keeps simple things simple and makes complex tasks manageable.
- By harnessing the power of node's streams you get fast builds that don't write intermediary files to disk.
- gulp's strict plugin guidelines assure plugins stay simple and work the way you expect.
"Beautiful UI" is the top reason why over 46 developers like Brackets, while over 454 developers mention "Build speed" as the leading cause for choosing gulp.
Brackets and gulp are both open source tools. It seems that gulp with 31.3K GitHub stars and 4.41K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Brackets with 29.9K GitHub stars and 6.42K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, gulp has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1163 company stacks & 706 developers stacks; compared to Brackets, which is listed in 36 company stacks and 32 developer stacks.
Pros of Brackets
- Beautiful UI51
- Lightweight40
- Extremely customizable25
- Free plugins20
- Live Preview14
- Free themes13
- Clean8
- Easy7
- Integration with photoshop6
- Perfect for web development4
- Simple4
- Fast4
- Awesome UI2
- Clean UI2
- Code suggestions2
Pros of gulp
- Build speed451
- Readable277
- Code-over-configuration244
- Open source210
- Node streams175
- Intuitive107
- Lots of plugins83
- Works great with browserify66
- Easy to Learn45
- Laravel-elixir17
- build workflow4
- Simple & flexible3
- Great community3
- Stylus intergration2
- Clean Code2
- jade intergration2
- Well documented0
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Cons of Brackets
- Not good for backend developer3
- You have to edit json file to set your settings.1
- Bad node.js support1
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