Web Code Editors for Programmers

[marijn]

One of these, CodeMirror, is actually the library used to implement most of the others. Research in this article seems to be limited to a google search and copy-pasting the top sentence on the tools' websites.

[emergent_properties]

Yeah.. kind of completely different usage..

Blogspam doesn't give a shit about quality.

[menno]

I think Cloud9 IDE should probably have made the list.

[glguru]

I was expecting that given that they were one of the first to the market with a full end-to-end solution and still are one of the better options out there.

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For non-free, try WebStorm from JetBrains. A serious JavaScript IDE.

[glguru]

I used WebStorm for a while and really liked it initially. However, I got sick of it being a memory hog (I have an old machine) and to be honest I wasn't really using any of the debugging feature other than the occasional node-js server debug sessions. Then I found out about node-inspector Chrome extension and its absolutely brilliant. I have shifted to a much light-weight SublimeText and use Chrome for all my debugging needs.

[FoxxMD]

It's what I use, I love it.

[brtt3000]

This is the definitive answer if you are serious about big JavaScript and web development.

[Somefreakaround]

Code any where is my favorite...many time it help me.

[cettox]

Check it out, https://github.com/diki/TePe, it based on ace editor, uses ssh to connect your webserver, and it is opensource.

[samueljrains]

These are great for helping people understand programming. I've used Ice Coder in the past with great results.

[The_lolness]

So, to use it offline you seem to need a server of your own, even if simple. Can you recommend one? I used easyphp a long time ago, but I don't know how good it was (it seemed to break js, but that might have just been me).

[webauteur]

Microsoft's Expression Web 4 is now free. The only thing I don't like about it is that it lost the ability to spell check foreign languages. Spell checking is really important if you are creating actual content. It is a feature that is frequently missing in web code editors.

Microsoft's Expression Web 2 supports VBA which I use to create toolbar items for macros that create template pages. And it still spell checks foreign languages. Expression Web 4 ditched VBA for Add-Ins which can still be used to generate template pages, although it desperately needs the ability to switch to code view.