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Brackets vs Micro : What are the differences?

Developers describe Brackets as "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. On the other hand, *Micro * is detailed as "Modern terminal-based text editor". Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals. It comes as one single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies, and you can download and use it right now.

Brackets and Micro belong to "Text Editor" category of the tech stack.

Brackets and Micro are both open source tools. It seems that Brackets with 29.9K GitHub stars and 6.42K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Micro with 11.1K GitHub stars and 503 GitHub forks.

Decisions about Brackets and Micro

Samriddhi Sinha

Machine Learning Engineer at Chefling · Sep 26, 2020 | 6 upvotes · 974.4K views

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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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Pros of Brackets

Pros of Micro

51
Beautiful UI
40
Lightweight
25
Extremely customizable
20
Free plugins
14
Live Preview
13
Free themes
8
Clean
7
Easy
6
Integration with photoshop
4
Perfect for web development
4
Simple
4
Fast
2
Awesome UI
2
Clean UI
2
Code suggestions

4
It feels like a GUI-based editor ... in a terminal
3
Easy to use
1
Supports traditional ctrl shortcuts and copyboard

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Cons of Brackets

Cons of Micro

3
Not good for backend developer
1
You have to edit json file to set your settings.
1
Bad node.js support

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What is Brackets?

With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, it is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser.

What is Micro ?

Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals. It comes as one single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies, and you can download and use it right now.

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What are some alternatives to Brackets and Micro ?

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.

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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