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Posted by Parley Kennelly
Parley Kennelly
3,038 Points

Is there a lightweight IDE similar to Workspaces that can be used for non TreeHouse projects. NetBeans is just too big.

I really like the way Workspaces works and since that's what I'm learning on, I'd like something similar for my personal projects.

3 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

I prefer using Sublime Text. A lot of the treehouse instructors use sublime text in their videos. Pretty much any text editor will do though. If you are on windows I have heard good things about notepad++. The folks at github recently released Atom as well. I tried it and it was pretty cool. Someone mentioned Brackets on the forum a few days ago and it looks pretty neat. Keep going back to sublime though

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

If you are doing front-end work +1 for brackets.

Kevin Haube
Kevin Haube
12,265 Points
Kevin Haube
Kevin Haube
12,265 Points

Atom and Brackets are worth exploring!

Parley Kennelly
Parley Kennelly
3,038 Points
Parley Kennelly
Parley Kennelly
3,038 Points

Thanks. That gives more more options to look at. I use Notepad++ for quick editing but I noticed when I turned on auto tag closing, it creates closing brackets for elements that don't require ie. <!DOCTYPE HTML></!DOCTYPE> ?? why would it do that?