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Top 5 IDEs/Code Editors for Web Development

Henry Boisdequin on January 14, 2021

I have curated a list of my top 5 favourite IDEs/Code Editors for web development. This list is my personal opinion. If you have another IDE/Code E...
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Let's Code • Edited

Great post!

I agree that VS Code is probably the best one in the market. I feel the same view as you and prolly others too.

I even made a youtube video of this on my youtube channel. youtu.be/lnvtldTRdL0

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Henry Boisdequin

Awesome video!

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Let's Code

thanks dude. Awesome post of yours. 👍

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Camilo Orrego

I haven't seen a lot of people today using Sublime or Atom, since most of them migrated to VS Code. Also, another one that it's very popular is Emacs, thanks to its great community and amazing plugins that, in a lot of cases, are much better than VS Code or Vim.

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Henry Boisdequin

Emacs is a great tool, I was debating between it and Vim! Thanks for reading.

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Chittoji Murali Sree Krishna

Yeah I like vscode but it becomes heavy & slow after installing few packages, and thoug it has electron as

backend but still the same.

sublime won't have much extensions as vscode but it's lighter when compared to vscode.

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Henry Boisdequin

True! I like to use Sublime for smaller projects because I don't really need lots of extensions, debugging, etc and I use VSCode for bigger projects. Thanks for reading!

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SeongKuk Han

When I got a web development work at 2017, there was already VS Code.
I didn't know at that time. I tried to use an Editor 'Atom' because one of my coworkers used it. but It was really complicated to use for me. So I searched the internet for easy to use editors. and I found VS Code.
It was super easy to use. I didn't use many features of that tool though.
But someday I wanna change my editor to Atom. Because... That seems.... hack lit. Isn't it..?

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Henry Boisdequin

True! VSCode might seem more intuitive to use then Atom but I would definitely recommend giving Atom another try if you want a purely hackable editor.

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Hardik Chopra • Edited

I use Sublime Text only if I need to do something not big, might be some quick fixes because it is light-weight and very fast.
But
VS Code has to be on #1 because of so many plugins and extensions it offers.
It is what I use most of the time.
You can check out this article for referencing VSCode 😃-->

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Henry Boisdequin

Great article! Thanks for reading!

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Levi Velázquez

Nice list.

In my case, NeoVIM is the one I used for everything :). Even for JS.

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Henry Boisdequin

NeoVim is great! Thanks for reading!

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Manyong'oments

Vim should be mandatory for all human beings on planet Earth, just like wearing face masks

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Henry Boisdequin

That's a strong opinion. I personally use VSCode with the Vim extension. Vim is super useful!

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Manyong'oments

I cant ZZ in VSCode with the vim extension, so i removed it. Its meant to be used in the terminal

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

Came here to say vim and was disappointed that it's already on the list s 😭

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Henry Boisdequin

Its deservedly on the list! Thanks for reading!

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Alain Van Hout

It's a nice list, but really only one of those counts as an IDE. The rest are (advanced) editors.

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Henry Boisdequin

Appreciate your input. Thanks for reading!

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Andrew Baisden

VSCode will be hard to beat Microsoft did a good job with this one.

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Henry Boisdequin

Agreed! And it’s free!

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Daniel Ziltener

Vim is nice, but it lacks all the great stuff like org-mode from Emacs - so personally, I use Spacemacs, which combines the best of both worlds! :)

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Henry Boisdequin

Cool!

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RealToughCandy.io

Solid list of code editors. VS Code is certainly the go-to for so many devs.

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Henry Boisdequin

Certainly! Thanks for reading!

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RVxLab

WebStorm is free if you're a student, as is the case with every other Jetbrains IDE.

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Till Sanders

Heard of OniVim? onivim.io/

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Henry Boisdequin

I haven't but it looks cool, will definitely have a further look into it. Thanks for the suggestion!

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Daniel Einars

I'm surprised not to see intellij ultimate on this list.