Overall Satisfaction with Brackets
Pros
- The Live Preview feature is extremely helpful. You can make tweaks to your CSS and then see how it affects the pge you're coding.
- The recently added file tree feature is really a time saver. You can move files with a drop and drag feature without ever minimizing the program.
- One of my favorite features is the ability to update the core program with extensions. Some of the extensions are simple, like adding themes, while others are a offer a little more assistance like creating Lorem Ipsum text for you.
Cons
- Since Brackets is an open source software, it is always improving. So if you feel it is lacking something, shortly thereafter it almost always appears in the next software release.
- While using extensions are at your own risk, I have sometimes found an extension that caused a problem. It was easily resolved by deleting the software and then reinstalling.
- Live Preview sometimes doesn't work for me. While most of the time it does, it almost always seems to not work when I need it to work the most.
- As there is no cost to this open source software, the value you get from using it is immeciate.
- One way to give back, is to become a contributor to the software. They offer suggestions on whays to contribute like writing extenisons.
There are many different brands of code editors
available. Sublime text, Notepad ++ and Coda come to mind. While
they all pretty much offer the same core features, each has their own little intricacies,
which usually means you pick the one which you personally like and become
comfortable with. But one of the things I like about Brackets is it is
supported by Adobe. Adobe has quite a few Creative Cloud applications geared
towards internet/intranet development and maintenance. Yet, they are behind
this simple but powerful tool. And when you have such a big mainstream company
like Adobe behind a product, you develop a trust for that product. I
actually have used a combination of the three products mentioned a few moments
ago, and when someone recommended using Brackets, I decided to stay with it and
delete the others. I’ve yet to regret that decision and I have never looked
back.
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