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Mike Me
5,148 PointsBest free IDE for HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Can please someone advise me which IDE should I use for developing on my Mac using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Thanks in advance.
4 Answers
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsAptana Studio 3 is a fine IDE for web development.
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 PointsHi Mike!
It depends whether you are specifically looking for an IDE or whether you are just looking for a piece of software to write your code in. If you are specifically looking for an IDE then I would recommend you take a look at WebStorm by JetBrains. I have used JetBrains IDE's before and I have had a really great time with them so I would recommend checking that out.
However, if you are just looking for some software to write your code in then I would highly recommend Atom. This is what I use for all of my web development at work and also at home and it really is a great piece of software. One thing you may find is that, especially for languages like HTML and CSS, is that they are more just written in a text editor rather than an IDE. If you've taken a look at WebStorm then you will probably see that they market it as a 'JavaScript IDE', this is because other languages like HTML and CSS don't require an IDE in the same way that some other languages do.
I hope that I managed to help you out anyway! If you have any more questions then feel free to leave them down below.
-Luke
Mike Me
5,148 PointsThanks for both of you guys. I just need any free environment to work on my projects using (HTML,CSS,JavaScript)
Estevan Montoya
Courses Plus Student 23,989 PointsI personally love using Brackets from Adobe. I use Adobe for Photoshop, and have trusted their software for years. And yes, it's free ;)