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Is Dreamweaver still a thing? I haven't heard of it in years, many years.

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I last touched it in 2012 - but apparently, yes, yes it is:

https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/whats-new.html

Although, it looks like their cumulative 2019 updates are limited to the following headlines between the two:

1) added support for HTML tag highlighting inside PHP code

2) bootstrap CSS support.

... I was surprised to see it was still alive.

I use Dreamweaver all the time. It's actually a full-blooded static site generator, two decades before that was trendy. And marketing can use the visual editor to make it a content management system.

I still use a copy because no editor has a built in sftp anymore. Sublime/vs code/phpstorm are great for git projects but for remote projects you don't want to work on locally dreamweaver can't be beat. The only problem is modern code has changed syntax so dreamweaver gives warnings for valid code. I wonder if anyone has updated these.

VS Code has just come out with a Microsoft team SFTP plugin. It's pretty good, search even works. Seems to fix almost all the issues I tended to get using sshfs. Recommend giving it a shot.

Side note in 2012 my boss forced me to use Dreamweaver and took a lot of persuading to let us use the new (at the time) Sublime text. Good times.

Since you mention text editors, Emacs can be used to work remotely by its TRAMP remote access layer. Instead of /path/to/file, you type /ssh:user@host:/path/to/file. Since Emacs has a built-in directory browser, you can use it as if it was an SFTP client this way.

BBEdit does if you happen to be a Mac user.

PHPStorm and all the JetBrains IDEs have the ability to edit files directly via SFTP AFAIK.

It's under Tools > Deployment

Source: I use it daily.

You can deploy through sftp but you still need save the files locally. I could accept that but then you generate a laravel db migration file or config file is created through a package that was installed remotely. So your local copy doesn't have the new file. So now you have to resync the repo. Resyncing the repo from the root directory brings in the vendor packages locally so a resync could take an hour. You need to go to subfolder by subfolder resyncing if you want to avoid that.

Dreamweaver is open-edit-push back. Perfect when you have to make a change to a site and don't want all of the fiies locally.

Absolutely.

AFAIK it's the best non-code way to create sites without being tied to a hosting platform or messing with Wordpress plugins.

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