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Poll: What's Your Favorite IDE for JavaScript?

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I know there's a ton of debate on this, but I'm trying to get an idea of what the community thinks _overall_

Please list any ide you like. Also, list any ide you do not like and if there's enough results, I'll post an edit with a like/dislike ratio. I know there was a previous poll for favorite IDE, but it didn't mention language, which seems like an important distinction to make.

Also on reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/2m3rsh/poll_whats_your_favorite_ide_for_javascript/

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I don't use an IDE.

Text editing is done in Vim.

Debugging/profiling and quick prototyping are done in the browser using a mix of built-in dev tools and extensions.

Me too. Especially for Linux development and quick edit in the server or vm where space and memory might be limited.

I've become a huge fan of Webstorm since focusing on developing MEAN-stack apps. 30 day trial, and $50 for a license. Not too bad if your dev activities are generating income.

I can only second this. Webstorm hands down.

I will go ahead and give it a third. The javascript debugger is amazing. I believe it also has an extension for chrome that allows you to debug front side code in the debugger.

After going through what seems like every editor ever made i have finally settled on Emacs. For javascript I sometimes use js2 mode.

Are there any other packages you would recommend?

For web development I absolutely love emmet mode. Some times web mode can come in handy (for templates like mustache etc). Also emacs has lots of functions to jump around tags. So if you can,loot into them ( Disclaimer: I have been neglecting this for far too long!) And finally if you use firefox then it's all text plugin can be a life saver. It allows you to type comments from your favourite editor.

What about you? What plugins do you use?

I lean on dired mode (replaces the file tree) and rgrep (searching across files in a project) a lot. There's a multiple cursors package I've been meaning to check out that seems like it emulates the behavior in Sublime. Web mode is good for working with embedded JavaScript and or *.erb files.

Atom.io is a nice one that's similar to Sublime Text - again comes with linting. Has a slight issue of 2MB being the largest file that it can handle, but otherwise very nice.

I just use Netbeans though as its my main overall IDE

Sublime Text 3 for me. It's not really an IDE but you can make it like one by using extensions such as SublimeLinter, build tasks and SublimeCodeIntel (which I sadly can't get working)

>SublimeCodeIntel

If you're using it for code completion, then you should try the "Better Completion" plugin.

On a Mac: I'm a big fan of Sublime. The only things I don't like are the counter-intuitive keyboard shortcuts.

On a PC: Notepad++

In the terminal: vi or vim

After having used Notepad++ for years I've switched to Sublime as its cross platform and has linting. I agree with you on the shortcuts though.

I mostly use Brackets in my work and it's really good for editing JS files and has a lot of stuff like themes and plugins.

Been using VIM for all coding. Recently started using Adobe Brackets & I like it. I might switch to it.

Brackets is really good, yes

VIM

VIM.

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