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JavaScript Preparing Your Application for Deployment

Valerio Viperino
Valerio Viperino
6,947 Points
Posted by Valerio Viperino
Valerio Viperino
6,947 Points

What is the teacher's IDE?

I was curios about what IDE was the teacher using since it doesn't seem Visual Studio Code or anything that I know. As extra: any advice on the "best" IDE for developing JavaScript apps? I'm used to Android Studio autocompletion and other features and VSC is not so powerful, from what I've seen.

Patrick Koch
Patrick Koch
40,496 Points
Patrick Koch
Patrick Koch
40,496 Points

watched 2sec and was thinking the same!

2 Answers

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points

Hey there Valerio,

I'm quite sure this is Atom with the One Dark UI Theme and One Dark Syntax Theme activated. I'm also using Atom as a text editor and I'm really happy with it. It's free and open source so you should definitely check it out! :) Other great alternatives would be Sublime Text 3 which has a free unlimited trial period and Brackets by Adobe which is also free and open source.

Oh and also note that all of above mentioned editors are text editors and not IDEs. That also might be the reason why you feel that Visual Studio Code is less powerful than Android Studio because Android Studio is an IDE and Visual Studio Code is also "just" a text editor. However even though text editors are quite minimalistic out of the box they can be modified and extended with packages so that they almost become like an IDE. However if you're really looking for a JavaScript IDE you should check out WebStorm.

I hope that helps! :)

Valerio Viperino
Valerio Viperino
6,947 Points
Valerio Viperino
Valerio Viperino
6,947 Points

Thank you so much Tobias! Your answer is just what I was looking for. I think that I'll have a look at Atom and try to play with it a little bit, but I've also already downloaded WebStorm, because I'm too much accustomed to some of the features of Android Studio. :)

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points

No problem Valerio, I'm glad I could help you! :) Yes, I highly recommend that! But before you completely switch to an IDE because you miss some of the features of an IDE like Android Studio try looking for a package for that in Atom and quite often there will be one! However you also shouldn't pack Atom with too many packages because then an IDE would probably be the better fit. No matter what you'll choose in the end, happy coding! :)

Henrik Hansen
Henrik Hansen
23,176 Points
Henrik Hansen
Henrik Hansen
23,176 Points

Use PhpStorm witch have the same functionality as WebStorm plus Php ande a few other features. I really like JetBrain IDE's, but they are a bit expensive.

Anish Walawalkar
Anish Walawalkar
8,534 Points
Anish Walawalkar
Anish Walawalkar
8,534 Points

it could either be Github's editor Atom or a highly customized version of Sublime Text 3