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Top 5 IDE for Web DevelopmentšŸ¤©

Ujjwal (UG THE SEP) on September 12, 2021

Nowadays every application, websites, machine are more user friendly with an awesome UX/UI. So it is necessary to upgrade us by using a user frie...
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jerry Almeida

Code editor != IDE šŸ˜‰

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Lalit Yalamanchili • Edited

You are right. Sublime, Atom and Visual Studio Code are Code Editors. Not IDEā€™s
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Bob Bass

To be fair, you can turn most text editors into IDEs, independent on our technologies, a lot of the time we do just that.

I know that vs code is more like an IDE for me these days because I have different configurations for different technology stacks and they make the development experience much different than it would be without 100 or so plugins.

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Robin Schulz

I kind of agree with that. Even though most code-/text editors are meant to simply write some lines of code, they can be extended with tons of extensions, modules, plugins, etc., why you might end up with something close to an integrated development environment.

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Andrei Dascalu • Edited

True, but would you please care to explain the difference, since it seems to differ based on person as well as when a certain definition made its way "into the wild"?

Back in the day (early 90s) an IDE was something that came with the language. Eg, you install the compiler/interpreter and that came alongside an editor that allowed you syntax highlight, debugger and to execute the program.
See Turbo Pascal, Delphi as well as nowadays Android Studio or Visual Studio.

To that definition, I'm not sure which "IDE"s fit the bill. VSCode might, depending on language but in a reverse way (eg: the Go plugin can install the language as well as required tooling and leads VSCode to provide all the above functionality)

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The last time I used an IDE, it was effectively just a driver for the editor/compiler/linker/lsp/etc components - most of which are or can be separate tools.

My terminal can drive all those parts. As you didn't put forth a specific definition of an IDE, can I call my terminal an IDE (the most language agnostic, plugin friendly, open IDE ('ve ever used)? šŸ˜‰

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Arnold

Damn, I'm still thinking

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leob • Edited

Top 5 most 'demanding' editors, I have the idea that this is a bit of an arbitrary list. I wonder if Atom is still relevant, it's effectively been superseded by VSCode - both are based on the same technology (Electron) and they're very similar, but VSCode picked up where Atom left off, and went way beyond it.

I think Sublime is the most serious "general purpose" contender of the list, behind VSCode.

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Travis Fantina

I use Atom every single day.

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leob

I used Atom for one week, before switching to VSCode ... but I don't pretend to be able to compare the two products in their current state, for all I know Atom could have improved tenfold, so I'll reserve judgment.

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I used Atom for a lot longer than one week. When I switched to Go (or Rust, i dont recall which), the performance dropped to a degree that made it unusable. That was around mid to late 2019.

I would hope the perf has improved since then, but the overwhelming tide of community support behind other products still weighs against Atom imo. They can have a superior/preferable product, but if most of the users are on other platforms (particularly with products driven by user extensibility) it's difficult, perhaps impossible, not to be left behind.

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Sattwik Sahu

So we can really use PyCharm for WEB DEV? What are the extensions to be used for NodeJS and integration with other web frameworks like Vue, Angular or libs like React? Could you please elaborate? It would be really helpful

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dikamilo

PyCharm have all that WebStorm have, so yes, you can use it for web dev. Jetbrains IDEs are generic. WebStorm is build in almost in every other IDE and you can have "any oher IDE" features in Jetbrains IDEA as plugins.

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Adrian Rinnus • Edited

You can use idea or webstorm. But pycharm is the intellij ide for python and as far as I know there are no js plugins for it, or at least not for all belongings.

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Yamiteru

I tried all of them and some other ones and find WebStorm the best IDE.

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Kody Technolab

Top IDE & Tools for Flutter Development in 2021

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Programmer • Edited

Nice Information!!
Keep sharing
My favourite one is VS Code

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dan

hm,, webtrom should be in this list,,

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Ujjwal (UG THE SEP)

I will notice it next time

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Posandu

Change atom wikipedia page !

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Vikas-jk • Edited

You are missing best one, Visual Studio, for C# and Netbeans for Java.
Source: Best Web-Development IDE

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Jon Randy šŸŽ–ļø

You mistyped the version number for Sublime Text - current version is 4. Even your download link links to version 4. Also, most of your download links are for Windoze versions of the IDEs

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Ujjwal (UG THE SEP)

Hey @jonrandy ,
Thanks for telling me mistake
Please have a look nowšŸ™‚

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Jon Randy šŸŽ–ļø

Better - you've now written Sublime Text 4, but are linking to a page for version 3!

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Ujjwal (UG THE SEP)

Done

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Xavier Siraudin

PHPStorm is my favorite. That being said the company I work at is paying for the subscription.

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Josh

Just a heads up. If you are a student at a university you can get all of the JetBrains Ultimate IDEs for free through their website.

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Ujjwal (UG THE SEP)

How???
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Johnmarison

Hi,
Nice to read this blog

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alexkarpen

Sadly is top one anymore... VS Code

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leob

Why sadly? simply a very good tool ...

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Syed Saadullah Shah

very well explained Ujjwal !

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Ravi Makhija

You are missing the two web development ide that is Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA
Source link: Best web development ide