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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 npm
- Best package management system for javascript648
- Open-source382
- Great community327
- More packages than rubygems, pypi, or packagist148
- Nice people matter112
- As fast as yarn but really free of facebook6
- Audit feature6
- Good following4
- Super fast1
- Stability1
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Cons of npm
Cons of Brackets
- Not good for backend developer3
- You have to edit json file to set your settings.1
- Bad node.js support1
Cons of npm
- Problems with lockfiles5
- Bad at package versioning and being deterministic5
- Node-gyp takes forever3
- Super slow1
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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 npm?
npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.
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What are some alternatives to Brackets and npm?
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.
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.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
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.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere