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Brackets
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Brackets

#16in Code Collaboration
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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.

Brackets is a tool in the Code Collaboration category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Code Hints from a PSDInline EditorsLive PreviewPreprocessor Support

Brackets Pros & Cons

Pros of Brackets

  • ✓Beautiful UI
  • ✓Lightweight
  • ✓Extremely customizable
  • ✓Free plugins
  • ✓Live Preview
  • ✓Free themes
  • ✓Clean
  • ✓Easy
  • ✓Integration with photoshop
  • ✓Fast

Cons of Brackets

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

Brackets Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Brackets?

Visual Studio Code

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

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

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++

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.

Atom

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.

Emacs

Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

Brackets Integrations

Solis, JavaScript, Node.js, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver and 2 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Brackets. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Brackets.

Solis
Solis
JavaScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Node.js
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Dreamweaver
Vizy
Vizy
WakaTime
WakaTime

Brackets Discussions

Discover why developers choose Brackets. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.Showing 1 of 5 discussions.

Ademir Mazer Junior
Ademir Mazer Junior

Tech Lead - Software Engineer

May 24, 2015

Needs adviceonBracketsBrackets

Rapid small editions on code and markdown texts. Greate for simple projects with not so many files. Brackets

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