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  • 18-09-2017 1:35pm
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    markpower
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭


    Hi,

    I've recently started to learn HTML and CSS on codecademy. I was wondering what the best software was to use to start putting this into practice.

    Thanks in advance.


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    Goodshape
    Registered Users Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    "Best" is entirely subjective :). There's a lot of good options these days.

    But have a look at Visual Studio Code. It's very good and easy to setup – https://code.visualstudio.com


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    off.the.walls
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭off.the.walls


    As goodshape said lot's of good options these days.

    Personally I either use Webstorm -- https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm -- but this costs money. A good free alternative is either visualstudio or Sublime Text is quite nice to use!


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    Talisman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,079 ✭✭✭Talisman


    There are plenty of free code editors available.

    Atom
    Brackets
    Light Table
    Visual Studio Code


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    off.the.walls
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭off.the.walls


    Talisman wrote: »
    There are plenty of free code editors available.

    Atom
    Brackets
    Light Table
    Visual Studio Code

    Brackets and Atom are two personal favourites! Not mad about VSC can't put my finger on why just never felt comfortable with it!


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    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users Posts: 6,250 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    off.the.walls wrote: »
    Brackets and Atom are two personal favourites! Not mad about VSC can't put my finger on why just never felt comfortable with it!

    Spent some time inside vs code, and I'd recommend it as an ide


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    Aswerty
    Registered Users Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Aswerty


    Talisman wrote: »
    There are plenty of free code editors available.

    Atom
    Brackets
    Light Table
    Visual Studio Code

    I remember all the Light Table hype. Is it actually any good?

    Of the light weight editors, I'm a fan of Visual Studio Code and Sublime Text. Or who can forget good old Notepad++ which I'm sure a lot of us started out on.

    Or you can even just start off using an online editor like https://codepen.io/pen/.

    Anything that does syntax highlighting (e.g. colour codes the html and css keywords) is all you need.


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    SweetCaliber
    Registered Users Posts: 2,464 ✭✭✭SweetCaliber


    I'd +1 Atom.

    My all time favourite now. So much so that I ditched my $80 sublime license for it and haven't looked back.


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    markpower
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭markpower


    Thanks guys, I was looking at Visual Studio Code and think I might go with that.


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    Bonavox
    Registered Users Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Bonavox


    Atom would be my vote. Great open source option.


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    Ludo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    Atom is OK but it can be very slow to open, I find, on certain machines.

    Code is excellent. Regularly find myself with Typescript, Java, Ruby and C++ files all open at same time. Code handles them all seemlessly with full code navigation and intellisense for them . Atom doesn't handle them anywhere nearly as well and doesn't handle the C++ at all really.


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