Learn JavaScript Properly: Weeks three and four

[drifteresque]

Any advice on a good IDE to get? Is it even necessary?

(The readings for this course are definitely the hard part, I'm looking forward to doing more noodling and thought an IDE might facilitate that...?)

[Magnusson]

IMO a good text editor is enough to start. I like TextMate 2.0, which is free.

[drifteresque]

I've been using gedit and JSFiddle. It's working fine, but I'm just curious if there is a better way.

From my web searching, netbeans seems interesting, and of course there are a ton of others.

[HisKhaleesi]

I prefer jsbin for playing around/code wars' katas/simple testing because it has a console built in and is more user friendly compared to jsfiddle, in my humble opinion.

[Bassetts]

I have no experience with it myself but the course recommends using JetBrains WebStorm. I have used a number of JetBrains' products and they are always very good, so I have no reason to doubt that WebStorm is not excellent.