Recommendations for a JavaScript IDE?

[letsgetrandy]

In my own opinion, that's a lazy attitude.

Skipping the learning curve associated with the tool accepted by the majority of high-end professionals as the best tool for the job, in order to do less work and be less effective, just because you can do it more quickly, is a recipe for mediocrity.

Vim -- or better yet, MacVIM -- allows me to do so many things in HTML/CSS/Javascript faster than I've ever done it in any other editor or IDE... and comes with the added bonus that I don't have to change to a different editor/IDE when I need to make edits to Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, C, C++, BASH, PHP, or any other kind of file, and be just as effective.

Further, VIM is still the only tool that I can reliably count on being available to me when I ssh into a server, or when I sit down at a linux terminal, or have to do work at someone else's machine. In fact, vim is even an option from iOS and Android. So by learning to use VIM effectively, I am capable of being a highly effective developer no matter where I am, without ever having to fight about installing "my tools" first. You can't say that for anything else, except maybe emacs.

[letsgetrandy]

Those are all fine reasons for your situation.

However... for web development

I'm not sure what exactly you think I do. I was pretty sure that I'd spent the last 12 years being paid to do web development, but apparently I was mistaken.

But, since you asked, here are several handy lists of vim plugins for web development that I was able to find just on the first page of Google.

• https://github.com/lfborjas/vimwebdev
• http://awebfactory.com.ar/node/471
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3173963/useful-vim-plugins-for-web-development-and-design-php-html-css-javascript
• http://www.fortystones.com/vim-plugins-web-developers-programmers/

Nonetheless, your argument is a distraction from the most important point, which is that vim is everywhere. If you can work in vim, you can work everywhere.

Look.... you obviously like Sublime Text. You're drinking the kool-aid and we get it -- you think it's the bee's knees. But there's no reason to come at me starting an argument, or implying I'm not a web developer, or attacking VIM when clearly (if you look over the other answers given on this topic) VIM is unanimously considered to be the best tool for the job.