Overall Satisfaction with Brackets
Brackets is used by me in my role managing my company website's codebase as well as some other websites that I run. I also use it for development of browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome. It is a very web-focused text editor that has a good number of useful plugins to extend functionality.
- A clean simple UI with an excellent dark theme
- There are plenty of customization options and extensibility via plugins
- It is pretty fast and very smart when working with front-end website files
- The live preview mode is a nice feature when coding as part of a presentation
- The implementation of code-completion feels natural and effortless
- It has some readability issues with the fonts being too small on my personal laptop.
- It isn't as powerful as some new competitors.
- Brackets is free, so the ROI is really time-based. Brackets has saved me time in my web development over using a more simple text editor.
- Notepad++
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Brackets is kind of in the middle ground between Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code. It is a little smarter than Notepad++ (though both have a good collection of plugins) but a little slower and not quite as smart as Visual Studio Code. Brackets really favors the web developer, so it beat VS Code in some of the extensions. For example, I use an extension that compiles my Stylus code to CSS automatically. This is really slick and I don't have to think about it. The other two editors don't have similar plugins (though they could be created).