# Brackets Reviews **Vendor:** Adobe **Category:** [Text Editor Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/text-editor) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 261 ## About Brackets Brackets is a modern, open-source code editor specifically designed for web development, focusing on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Developed by Adobe and released in 2014, Brackets is built using web technologies, making it lightweight and highly extensible. It is cross-platform, supporting macOS, Windows, and Linux operating systems. Brackets offers a range of features tailored to enhance the web development workflow. Key Features and Functionality: - Inline Editors: Brackets allows developers to open a window into the code they care about most, enabling quick edits without switching between file tabs. - Live Preview: This feature provides a real-time connection to the browser, allowing developers to see changes to CSS and HTML instantly on screen. - Preprocessor Support: Brackets offers support for preprocessors, facilitating a more efficient workflow for developers who use them. - Extensibility: Being open-source, Brackets supports a wide range of extensions that add functionality such as Git integration, Emmet for high-speed HTML and CSS workflow, and more. Primary Value and User Solutions: Brackets addresses the needs of web developers by providing a streamlined, efficient coding environment that integrates visual tools directly into the editor. Features like Live Preview and Inline Editors reduce the need to switch between different applications, thereby enhancing productivity. Its open-source nature and extensibility allow developers to customize the editor to fit their specific workflow, making it a versatile tool for modern web development. ## Brackets Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** in Brackets, finding it intuitive and visually clear for coding tasks. (3 reviews) - Users enjoy the **Live Preview** feature, which allows real-time website editing and enhances their coding efficiency. (3 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** of Brackets, enhancing their workflow with seamless browser compatibility and live previews. (2 reviews) - Users find that Brackets provides **significant productivity improvements** with features that streamline front-end coding and save time. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **fast and intuitive interface** of Brackets, enhancing their front-end coding experience significantly. (2 reviews) - Users value the **usefulness of extensions** in Brackets for quick and lightweight features, enhancing their coding experience. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **rich selection of extensions** in Brackets, enhancing their coding experience and productivity. (1 reviews) - File Compatibility (1 reviews) - Free (1 reviews) - Large File Handling (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find **plugin navigation challenging** and have concerns about potential harmful behavior from installations. (2 reviews) - Users experience **frequent crashes** with Live Preview and note a decline in support and updates for Brackets. (1 reviews) - Users note the **lack of advanced IDE features** in Brackets, affecting functionality and support for modern frameworks. (1 reviews) - Users find the **cluttered interface design** of Brackets can make navigating plugins challenging and frustrating. (1 reviews) - Users are concerned about the **lack of support and potential discontinuation** of Brackets, affecting reliability. (1 reviews) - Users report **update issues** with Brackets, leading to crashes and lack of support for modern frameworks. (1 reviews) ## Brackets Reviews ### 1. My favorite IDE for front-end development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ali Y. | Product Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Brackets?** I love facilitator plugins when writing HTML and CSS codes **What do you dislike about Brackets?** The alternatives of dark and light mode design options should be increased. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I write my front-end development codes via Brackets. I haven't experienced Brackets for back-end development yet. ### 2. Good for front end **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deeksha P. | Graduate Teaching Assistant- Introduction to Algorithms, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Brackets?** You can Instantly view changes that you make in your code. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Sometimes it crashes and all code is not auto-saved . **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly working on HTML, CSS, Javcasript. ### 3. best for beginners **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Brackets?** It is Cross-platform, so it is available for Macros, Windows, and Linux OS and its free **What do you dislike about Brackets?** It lacks split-screen support; sometimes it gets shut down in between **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I generally use the bracket for practice and my projects for a test run which I believe is very much recommended. ### 4. Excellent UX, Live Preview in-browser, and Plugin Ecosystem makes Brackets amazing at any price... **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Don E. | Brand Design Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** The Live Preview system removes the need to continuously upload and test to see the effects of code changes. The Plugin ecosystem makes customization a snap and provides tools for just about any development need. Solid UX design is a pleasure, and the standards-compliance is a huge benefit. Best of all, it is somehow free. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** I believe that a split-screen view would be a welcome addition. Honestly, there's never been something I tried to do with Brackets that I couldn't, either natively or through a community plugin. Another nice feature might be to be able to have multiple projects at once in the left-hand menu. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Brackets Color Finder and Minimap are great plugins to grab. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed a low-weight, agnostic text editor that I could use across multiple types of projects with code-hinting, primarily for website development but occasionally for non-web scripting as well. ### 5. Bracket : One of The Best Code Editor For Web Developer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Brackets?** -Bracket Simple to install and use and available for both Windows and Mac Users. -I like its UI Design and its Color Combination on code. -Code Suggestion and AutoComplete make my work Easy. -I Love its Live Preview Feature. -Very Easy to Switch Between tab and pages. -it Supports Allmost Every Programming Language. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** -It's Not Have Auto Save Mode -Sometimes it's Lacking and Not responding. -Other Wise I love Using Bracket during my web development Projects. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** -I love it's interface and it's very easy to use - basically it's Best for web designer and Developer. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** -Website Design and Development. -it's Makes My work Easy Because its Code Suggestion Work very Good Compare to other Code Editor like sublime text ### 6. One of the better editors for beginners... **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Susan W. | Production Control Support, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Several languages supported, Ease of use. Easy to understand even for a beginner **What do you dislike about Brackets?** not all the extensions available are well described **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helped me to be more comfortable using Google's newer editor. ### 7. The best tool from Adobe for developers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Minonishi M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Free, open-source, and great in almost every aspect, when I started in web development Dreamweaver was king, now it has its niche appeal but for most of us it was time to move on, so when Adobe released Brackets it just feel natural for me to do the change to it and so I did it keeps the Quick edit feature from Dreamweaver and it feels really natural when editing CSS and it's also very light at the same time. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** I'm a firefox user and the Live Preview is bound to Chrome and that is ok but it would be even better if it also supported safari and firefox. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** It has fantastic addons that can speed your development time **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work mainly with PHP/Javascript/HTML and Brackets is a central tool in my day to day job ### 8. A Useful Tool on Chromebook **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets was made available on Chrome OS long before VSCode was ever even thought of. This availability made it my go to development tool at the time and it has alot of features that make it fit a web developer's mobile needs very appreciated. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** The only downside I remember was that it would sometimes crash on my Chromebook, this I'm sure has been worked out by now. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** I recommend others considering Brackets take a look at plugins they may already use as VSCode plugins are not cross compatible. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solved mobile web development issues for a few websites as I travelled with Brackets when I only had my Chromebook to work with. ### 9. Intuitive UI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Brackets?** The UI is clean and intuitive. Brackets is lightweight and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** There is no support for development in complex languages and systems. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it as a text editor only. I don't use it for development. Brackets is handy for a quick review of files for me. ### 10. Amazing text editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** The live preview is truly helpful. A great advantage comparing to other apps. Also, it is a lightweight app. It's easy to install. Easy to setup and there are tons of add-ons that make the work even easier. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** The live preview only works in Google Chrome. Sometimes I want to use it with other browsers and It is not possible. I need to open the files manually from my computer. They could improve this feature a little bit. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** It is really good for students while learning front end development. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a software engineering student, I often need to work on front-end projects. So far, Brackets is the best text editor I used. I tried others, but this one is the best. ### 11. Simple and clean to get the job done **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremy B. | Freelance Graphic Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets was the third program I used for development. Before it I used Coda and then Dreamweaver to code Basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Out of all three, I will still go to brackets when I need to code. It is by far the simplest and easiest to use. Along with ease of use, Brackets has always been the fastest program to use, never slowing down or causing trouble when working. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Brackets helps me develop websites with ease and offers everything I need, I have no complaints about Brackets. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Download it. If anything else, it's free and there's no harm done in trying it out. You can't be the smooth and modern interface of Brackets. Uncluttered and intuitive, Brackets will offer you what you need to get the job done. Again, it's free, at least try it out. But don't blame me if you get hooked. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Brackets is design with web design in mind. An open-source project, produced by Adobe, Brackets offers me the simplicity I need to develop the websites I design. I also use Brackets with WordPress to create custom HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript with a local FTP to then push it live seamlessly. ### 12. Brackets: Comfortable, modern and lightweight code editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose G. | DevOps, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is a very light text editor with a modern appearance, which seems relevant to me, since it is not clogged with unnecessary features. It is very comfortable to work and I can change select different themes, from bright to dark. I also like the fact that you have an option to run the program without plugins. In addition, it has a function to show errors in the code. On the other hand, it has a live view function that is very useful for web developers. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Unlike other editors, it is completely free and compatible with all operating systems. I have no complaints with the Brackets functions. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Brackets is a friendly and easy to use editor. I especially recommend it to web developers. It has lots of powerful encoding features and great customization options. Also, it is very light and completely free. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Brackets allows me to easily work on web projects thanks to its live view function. I use this editor especially because it is very light, fast and friendly. Also, it's completely free, which saves my company money that would have to pay for a subscription of a software. ### 13. Brackets Code Editor from Adobe **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben B. | Core Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** This program is free and fast. Renders your html pages in a live view, has syntax coloring, and lots of free extensions that you can access right from the program itself **What do you dislike about Brackets?** The live preview only renders in Google Chrome, which is one of the best browsers for sure, but you have to manually open your pages in other browsers to test. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Its free, its fast, its accurate, its Adobe - all things I like when I code. Has a lot of extensions as well. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do a lot of one on one teaching and often get my students and clients to download and install Brackets. Its a really fast install and doesn't take very much resources on a system. I can also speed up my code since their interface is very simple. I even started do web maintenance as well as web coding using this program. Maintenance in the sense of quickly creating and testing and posting pages. You can even get an ftp extension - so its a one stop shop. ### 14. Excellent lightweight and powerful IDE - and FREE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ekaterina B. | Full-Stack Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets makes my going through a copied source code a breeze with color coding and other formatting options when I need to hash out something quickly. It goes very easy on resources, starts up fast. Brackets has a good base of plugin contributors, so you can add and remove plugins as needed, or you can write your own and share it with the community. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** So far, I have not been able to figure out a quick shortcut like CTRL+K, CTRL+D to quickly indent the code for easier reading. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Explore the available plugins, I know there is a ton out there. I have perused a few and find it very useful that anyone can add their own plugin contribution. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instead of using Notepad, I pull up Brackets to hash out any type of code snippet/logic. ### 15. Brackets is frankly a very customizable and lightweight editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniela C. | Senior iOS Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** I like that the GUI themes can be customized, since it is possible to install themes created by third parties that normally give a better appearance than the themes of the software itself. Supports syntax highlighting and linting for a wide variety of programming languages. I also like that plugins can be installed to improve the code environment like a taskbar or a sidebar. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Brackets is a very well developed editor with the best customization options that I have been able to test in a code editor. I have nothing negative to comment. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Whether for a beginner or an experienced developer, Brackets is a very complete and customizable code editor that I recommend because it can be programmed faster and lighter. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Brackets to program in languages like PHP and HTML, although I also use it for a wide variety of languages. What I like the most is that it supports syntax highlighting and linting, and you can customize your entire GUI. Also, it allows you to install themes and plugins developed by members of the community. ### 16. Brackets review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deborah R. | IT Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Well, I learnt how to program with this program and I like it. After some time using Dreamweaver, this program is much easier and more convenient to me. What I like is the css/html side-by-side function and the night mode, which makes coding easier for my eyes. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** The program sometimes has problems with text scaling **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Brackets is a good open source editor for creating websites. While working on it I found it very easy to use and the interface is great. I really appreciate everything ( like live preview, although it only works with chrome) and I can improve my designs by taking advantage of the suggestions they contain. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** The brackets are the perfect tool for coding a website from scratch. Like I said, this is a super useful program. I love how simple it is. The program makes creating a website for your company easy and effective. ### 17. Makes sure you edit it right! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill S. | Freelance Programmer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2020 ### 18. Brackets has a beautiful interface for writing and editing code **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Veronica A. | Tester, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is a friendly editor that includes great capabilities through totally free and open source plugins. It is really easy to use and configure. One of the most relevant functions is that it can display code and parameter hints. Another of its strengths is the extensive theme options for interface customization. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Sometimes I have had problems with saving files when they are stored on the main disk, since Brackets apparently does not have the permissions to overwrite the files, so I have to save them in a different location and then replace it with the old one. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** I am satisfied using Brackets as a code editor because it is fast and light. In my opinion, it is the most customizable editor out there. Also, it has excellent code editing capabilities. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I really enjoy customizing Brackets. Overall, it has some very cool features for software development like code hints, Node debugging, and displaying errors in the status bar. I use it frequently especially with languages like PHP. ### 19. Brackets is a comfortable editor to develop your applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francisco M. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is a simple and elegant editor. What I like the most is that it supports several programming languages. It has several very useful developer functions like Autoprefixer, which automatically adds prefixes to CSS properties. It is also possible to integrate eqFTP, to directly transfer files from the computer to the web servers. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** I have never had any issues with Brackets. He is currently my favorite editor to develop software in any programming language. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Brackets is an editor with great potential. In addition, it can be downloaded free of charge. I recommend the use of this software. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main benefit of using Brackets is that it allows me to program in multiple programming languages. Also, it is a lightweight editor, so I can open big projects without slowing down the computer. In addition, it allows me to integrate FTP tools to upload projects to the organization's web servers. ### 20. Very Clean and beginner friendly Interface. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Faisal A. | Senior Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is very easy to use Code editor. It has very clean user interface . fonts are very prominent and stylish. It is highly beginner friendly. the best feature is its live preview. User can Code interactively. User can code and see preview simultaneously which makes it best among others. it is free. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** 1. Live preview lags sometimes. it gets stopped then you have it close it and re open it to make it start again. 2. Doesn't indicates start and end of a div. 3 .You cannot change language for syntax highlight , you need to save file with respective extension then syntax will highlight and auto completion works unlike other code editors . this is the biggest flaw in the brackets. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Live preview is very good you should give it a try. User Interface is very clean and easy . Auto completion and syntax highlighting doesn't work unless and until you save the file with respective extension. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** coding has become very easy because of its clean interface. code gets highlighted which makes every section isolated and easy to differentiate. color schemes makes code easy to understand so it is helping me in doing my front end works. ### 21. Ideal Front-End Editor for Newbies and Gurus **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Calvince S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** With real time virtualization or live preview of the website, you get immersed and feel attached to what you’re working on. This feature sets Brackets apart from other editors. What’s more, the ability to search for extension without having to download and add the plugins again is a plus for Brackets. Additionally, it supports multiple languages which is a great deal for me. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Besides being an advantage, the live preview at times deliberately fails and this can frustrate you. Besides, you cannot use it to read it the backend connections which therefore limits its functionality. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** For CSS, HTML and JavaScript, brackets is highly recommended. Being a front end editor you can achieve more with it. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our company runs multiple store fronts on Magento and of the areas I use the tool is to deliver ideal friend end that is easy to navigate and appealing to our clients. ### 22. Brackets review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is a simplistic piece of software that you can build/edit or go through existing website code and change as you need and you can preview before saving. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Only dislike is when you accident open a folder containing more than one website as it crashes the program **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** If you want a simplistic program to import your html code into and edit it on then this is most defiantly the program you want as it’s easy to locate code that isn’t working, can view your html coding without exiting to load up the page it will show on etc **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** It’s easy to teach people how to code on it and you can have multiple pages open to work on at once ### 23. Very smooth and light IDE for coding HTML, CSS and JavaScript **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahimuddin A. | Programmer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Most useful feature is the Live Preview feature , it opens in a chrome window showing the current page. Live editing which impacts the current page without manually refresh the browser.Hovering over a color declaration in CSS instantly shows the swatch of that color. The most recent version of Brackets also supports server side PHP coding through the integration of a PHP server like XAMPP, WAMP, MAMP or any other local web server. It also supports SASS and LESS pre-processors. There are many third-party extensions which can be install/unstall by the built-in Extension Manager. It has also built-in JSLint support for javascript coding. Overall there are clearly many possibilities for front-end developments. Moreover it is an open source product. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** This is somewhat a bit slow and the updater in Brackets may give sometime an error. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Brackets is very smooth and light IDE, actively maintained and developed. Moreover, it is entirely free and open source. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've been using Brackets for front end development and web design. It is optimized for HTML,CSS and JS. Its great features make my job a lot easier. ### 24. A code editor in which you can customize everything. It is easy to use and reliable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anderson F. | Junior Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is an editor that meets my needs as a developer. Its interface is very customizable, I like the fact that external themes can be installed. It has thousands of extensions that can be downloaded through the same application. Another advantage of using Brackets is their function to predict words, which is very useful to me when programming. Also, it integrates with Git easily. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** The only inconvenience I can think of is that this software requires a considerable amount of memory to run without slowing down. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** I definitely recommend Brackets. It is a software that allows the developer to customize practically everything. It has support for the most used programming languages. Finally, my last recommendation is that it has support for different operating systems. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** My overall experience with Brackets has been very good. I feel more comfortable using this software because I have been able to install my own theme for the user interface. Also, its tool for predicting words is helpful, which has increased my productivity. I also benefit from the fact that I have integrated GIT, to keep track of versions of my apps. ### 25. The final text editor is Brackets **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Isabel M. | Team Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is a very useful text editor. What I like most about it is its structure for detecting code errors. On the other hand, to improve the interface, it is a customizable program with good themes. It has an excellent method for checking syntax, among other things. Additionally, large or small projects can be carried out with this software. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Normally the editor is lazy. Compared to other editors like Notepad++ that start quickly, it can take more than a minute to launch the application. But, if you are running on a computer with limited resources, sometimes it may close without warning, as the memory does not support it. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** This editor is certainly the master of customization. I recommend it to developers who would like to work in an atmosphere that fits their design. You can install add-ons to make the necessary changes. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** This program gives me an ordered and outlined view of the code structure of the project I am designing. I also use the add-ons to upload changes to the company's website. In general, I prefer to program in this editor rather than others due to its simplicity, which allows me to customize almost everything. ### 26. Open source Text Editor **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shane R. | Sodtware Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Live updates preview is a lovely feature implmenetd by brackets and which I use a lot. Sometimes I actually wonder why other text editors like sublime text and atom never thought of implementing the feature before. It allows you to see in real time the changes you've made to your file on the browser without manually click reload or hitting 'Ctlr + R' / F5 all the time. There is also another feature called Quick Edit that allows you to style a tag within the html file without having to switch over to the css file. This is also accompanied with incredible support for css processors like SASS and LESS. Most front end developers and even backend developers who are looking to make a quick UI for their application prefer to use preprocessors instead of plain old css to create styles. Because it is built by html5 and javascript and bundled using electronJS, Brackets is easily hackable to any front end developer and hence can be easily extended to support more functionality than it was intended for. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** The problem with most desktop applications built using electronjs is that the memory management on them is really poor and brackets is no exception to this common phenomenon. To make matters worse, Adobe, who are the makers of Brackets, are famous for making applications that are memory intensive and which are not kind to lowly specified devices. Brackets in particular has an extended load time and can sometimes get buggy when running. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** This application will heavily influence your work if you're particularly a frontend web developer. I wouldn't suggest it for backend designs though. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** As someone who focuses mainly on the backend, sometimes I need to quickly come up with a front end to verify that my application actually works as intended. I use brackets whenever these needs arise to create html and css files. ### 27. Apt for web front end technologies **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian K. | UI/UX Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is text editor that prioritises user interface designs and the technologies used in that regard. I believe this is because it's parent company, Adobe, is primarily known for design tools. One of its amazin features is preview on hover where when you hover on color names or hexcodes, you get a preview of what the colour looks like without having to switch back to the browser to confirm. This feature also applies to images where when you hover over an image path within your html or css code, you get a preview of the image so you are certain that you've correctly linked the image. Still on previews, Brackets has a standout Live Preview feature that allows you to see all the changes you've made to your code on the fly on the browser without constantly having to reload the browser. This was one of the features that attracted me to it in my earlier days when I still didn't know how to create my own live server. This also goes to speak to its friendliness to beginner devs. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** In line with my title, Brackets is not very dependable for working on backends and server side languages. In its earlier days, php, for instance, did not Get any syntax representation and it appeared as normal text. Now even though that has changes over time, support for such alnguages including ruby and python is still merely limited to syntax highlights only. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Remeber that the main focus of brackets is front end web technologies like javascript, html and css, and their libraries and any other usecase will only give you a lot of frustrations. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Brackets is secondary text editor to me that I mainly use whenever a project only has a front end and there are no backend implementations required ### 28. Great tool for coding exercises **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edward O. | Database Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** In my opinion what sets Brackets apart from most of the other text editors is the Live Preview feature where you only have to click the button and your files get served on your browser (uses a chrome instance) while mimicking server features so that you don't have to worry that there will be a difference when your site goes live. There is also a readily accessible extensions manager that can be used to access the plugins page so as to get more functionailty into the code editor. It supports not just dragging and dropping of text but even multiline and rectangular selection and editing. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Live Preview may be a very outstanding feature but it is very limited in functionality. It can't configure and read the backend language files such as php together with database connections. This makes Brackets only ideal for front-end development and very annoying to use to develop the backend for web applications. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Brackets should be used mostly to develop the front-end of your applications and if you use it for any other instances you might not get the best out of it. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our company runs on several technology stacks ranging from our website to tools such as empoyee attendance management, billing systems, customer support systems etc. These applications need to stay updated all the time aand it is our responsibility as the IT team to do so. This is thus how I specifically use Brackts because I need multiple text editors since I'm always working on different projects at the same time and need to keep the working files and settings on each editor as they are. ### 29. A great code writing tool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremy T. | Web & Graphic Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets has changed the way I code. I love that it has a live preview function where I can view the changes as I code! It supports a wide variety of languages and also has a very good library of extensions such as prefixer that will go through the code and auto prefix any CSS selectors. I like the ability to have a split-screen so I can easily work on the CSS and the actual code at the same time. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Sometimes the Live preview fails or I have to refresh the live preview in order to see some changes. This doesn't happen very often, but it can be annoying. I also would like to see a few different views instead of just horizontal and vertical split-screen. It would be nice if Brackets was able to have 3 or 4 window views. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** This is a great and free code editor with advanced functionality such as a live preview. You should try it out. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a lightweight program, it works great with MacOS. It has helped me find a great code editing tool that isn't bulky or have tons of features I do not need. My productivity has increased with Brackets because I am able to have a split-screen working on two different pages of code at a time. The other huge time saver is the live preview which sets this code editor apart from the rest. I am able to see the changes in real-time which helps me work faster and more efficiently. ### 30. Excels for User Interface development **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angela M. | Backend Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets' built in extension manager is what makes it stand out for me as compared to other tools like sublime text and even visual studio code. You do not have to go to the editors plugins page and download the plugin before installing it on Brackets as is commonly done by those extensions. Instead, with Brackets, all you have to do is open the extensions manager and start searching for something related to what you want and you'l have choices to pick from. Brackets' Live Preview feature also sets it apart from every other text editor in the market. You do not have to install an additional plugin to achieve this and neither do you have to write your own code to implement server features **What do you dislike about Brackets?** There's still plenty of standard text editor commands that Brackets is missing. Some of these features include gutter selection of lines, auto-filling search field with the highlighted text under caret, transforming selected text to upper or lower case, and remembering previous searches. Brackets is also mostly designed for developing web apps and sites specifically the front end. And even though it is really worth using in this context, you end up feeling like a lot is missing when you want to use code languages like C, C++ and Java on Brackets. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Definitely go for Brackets if you are already thinking about it. It's a decision that you won't regret. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Even though I focus mostly on server-side scripting and database integration, occasionally I need to design a few front end modules to test my backend code. Brackets makes it easier for me like this particularly with the live preview feature. ### 31. Brackets is an amazing front end editor **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Linda G. | Senior Backend Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Just like its parent company Adobe, Brackets is primarily concerned with front end development. This means it gives special and extra attention to user interface elements and the languages used to craft UI modules. Writing CSS, HTML and javascript on Brackets is refereshing in such a way that you feel connected to what you are doing. There is the feature of Live Preview that puts all of this into perspective. You get to see your changes live on the browser which means you know what every single line of code does to your app. This also makes it easier to debug your code because it's easier to identify the point at which things started to go wrong with your code. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** The downside to focusing on just one element of web development is that every other aspect is left hanging with bare minimum support. Trying to build the backend to your applicaiton on Brackets can become frustrating considering it does not wholly support languages like PHP and Ruby as much as it does the front end ones. Brackets is also a little luggish and will occassionally either make your computer to hang or the app itself becomes unresponsive. This setback is heightened especially when the project you're working on contains many files in it. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** You can only fully enjoy using Brackets if most of your work involves designing user interfaces thus it is only in this scenario that I would recommend that you try it. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Brackets a lot when designing UI features particularly using Angularjs. It's refreshing and easier to work on it than most other editors that I've used. ### 32. Edit free with Brackets **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ramneek k. | Senior Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is not one of the best IDE's I have worked with, although brackets offers a wide variety of tools that facilitate coding, and one of the best features that it incorporates for me, is the real-time visualization of the website, you can carry out changes in the site, which in case you are going to see them on the screen. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Its characteristic star the visualization of the site in real time, it is not very polished for now, it does not have great stability it has hangings, blackouts. although this is normal to use node, which only works with a system core, and this could be one of the main causes. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Brackets is free and customizable, it's worth a try and judge for yourself **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Brackets is free which has saved us a lot of money over the last 3 years, brackets is still updated, so this is another point in favor to give you a chance despite these "failures more above indicated " ### 33. I enjoy working with Brackets a lot **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elias W. | UI Designer , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is one of the key tools that a UI designer should have. It is designed to give the best experience when you're developing the UI components of you app. The fact that there is a welcome page on initial install that tries to guide the user on how to use it is one of the things I love about it because it does not assume that everyone knows everything to do with code editors. There is also a comprehensive plugins page that is always updated by the brackets community so that you will almost always find a plugin for whatever you want to do. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Brackets is mainly focused on giving the programmer an immersive experience while developing for the frontend. However, there is very little support for backend languages like Ruby. This means that you have to keep switching between IDEs if you are developing both sides on your own **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Brackets is an amazing tool especially if your workings will be limited to Javascript, CSS and HTML so you should try it out. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Brackets is my go to editor whenever I have simple UI components that I need to create. At times I also us it for more complex situations but it all depends on the type of framework I'll be using at the time ### 34. Effective coding at one stop! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karan K. | Software developer Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is by far the most effective code editor I have used. The simplified integration provided for web projects makes it one of the best out there. Important points to be considered are its free and open source. The quick edit features, code auto completion and suggestions are to point and much useful while coding. Other editors gets sluggish while auto completing codes but brackets works perfect all times. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** From a personal point of view, I prefer brackets for front end development only, I am still unable to find it much useful for the backend or server side work such as stack for php or node. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** As any one would expect the code editor to have auto completion feature so that the coding gets easy and one does not have to remember all the syntax other features like quick editing, high lighting codes and proper formatting are added bonus , I would highly recommend bracket for front end web development, it is possibly the best tool in market right now. Also it being ope source, developer community makes valuable contributions frequently. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem that we had other code editors being sluggish and slow for code completion and managing quick edits, brackets come in much handy. Other than that live preview feature is very useful. ### 35. Brackets Text editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Drishti s. | Senior Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** As more favorable things I've seen as soon as I start using it is that it is for many languages, more than 20, and all the most used operating systems.It is also free, open source and is updated regularly. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Perhaps the weakest point is that in the initial installation it lacks some very useful features such as viewing the files we are working with by tabs. Although it is solved in a simple way, they install the appropriate plug-in. The configuration of the preferences of the application is a bit complicated for those of us who started programming, since we have to modify a json file. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** It would be advisable to incorporate several utilities into the primary installation that must be added later with plug-ins such as the code folding, Emmet or the tab manager. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me to easily modify certain parts of my company's website code. ### 36. Simple yet effective text editor! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua C. | Software Development Engineer In Test, Computer & Network Security, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is the best front end text editor. The chrome preview option which reflects changes as you type is a boon. The colour picker is very easy to use and helps a lot when writing CSS. The option to jump from HTML to write a new CSS rule for the same is an awesome feature. It allows you to use bezier curve editor for CSS as well which is a massive help in a wide variety of cases. JSLint and additional packages that can be added just make life easier. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** The text editor is slightly language favoured. Though you are free to use almost any language in it, the editor prefers HTML, CSS, Js or interpreted languages like Python and Ruby. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Front end developers will find Brackets really helpful. If you are someone who works a lot in CSS, HTML or Js you will love it. Anyone even looking for a simple text editor which is fast can pick this up. The package support is also rapidly increasing so you can get necessary packages by asking in the repository or by writing your own. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** This editor is a lot more customizable than most other editors available. It being open-sourced also adds to its appeal. The front end specific tools the editor offers is such a good collection which makes life easier. The number of times I have used the colour picker in the editor when writing CSS is uncountable. I generally use Brackets when I am working on front-end projects. ### 37. Functional editor, innovative but disappointing in many aspects **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fabrizio C. | Senior Provisioning engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** I'll start by saying that Brackets, from the first installation and first launch, aims and proves to be more of an editor for web developers than for system administrators, configuration provisioning, and scripting. However, I tried and used it for about 4 months, continuously updating it to the latest stable versions released almost monthly. It weighs 60 MB, but once running, it requires considerable and continuous resources to smoothly use a decent number of features, even simple ones like find and replace using regular expressions. This aspect did not deter me, but from recent versions, it no longer natively supports YAML and additional markup and markdown languages except through external extensions, making it and itself unusable for editing Linux configurations, Ansible (RedHat), netplan, and similar operations. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Despite being 60 MB, it requires high and continuous hardware resources compared to other source code editors (some even more functional and performant), it does not natively support collaborative editing and is unable to interpret, suggest autocompletion, and perform syntax highlighting for some configuration languages structured in markup and markdown recently introduced in the Linux and Ubuntu world. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I haven't encountered any particular problems with Brackets; it's a very simple source code editor that performs its job quite well without freezing or crashing. It has been useful to me for the occasional modification of HTML and CSS source code of a web page related to the front-end of a panel that needs to be customized with company logos. I found the native real-time live preview on the default browser to be really useful and well done. ### 38. Really complete and great programers text editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan Fernando M. | Asesor de servicios, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** the live visualization of html code in a chrome window as you type and modify you can see how it affects the website result, great for people starting to code and dont know how will it look, and it saves time so you dont have to be openning the html elsewhere each time tou make a change, it also has dark mode and many other extentions to make the experience personilize for each user and needs, its a really powerfull and complete text editor **What do you dislike about Brackets?** sometimes feels a bit slow when openning for the first time, could be a little lighter in install size **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** is in my opinion one of the best text editors for programers it has a rich store of extentions to make brackets even better, i have tried many other text editors like sublime, atom and visual studio code, but brackets is my favorite i use it for all my work **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** i use it to code my websites, helps me learn html and css propieties as it has great autocomplete and funtions and tag information about each programing lenguage ### 39. I very likely Brackets to sorce edit **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rodrigo E. | Factoring - FIDC, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** The first beautiful thing about bracket is it's an open-source code editor meaning it's free. The editor provides you with hints, live preview and preprocessor help as a programmer. The editor mainly supports distinct web development programming languages. The user interface is friendly and simpler to use other than what it can do. It helps you spot mistakes in typing and even syntax errors depending on the language of programming you use, i.e. PHP, Python, javascript, CSS. Especially if you are a web developer, this is the best program to use. The editor provides you with a live preview that helps you to test JavaScript while writing or editing the code that is a challenge to other publishers. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** I haven't discovered anything to hate for the moment I've been using brackets, but I'd enjoy if it backed a lot of languages, not just a few. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Anyone who is programming, mainly when using javascript, should attempt brackets. IT's got the live preview, and mostly it's a fantastic user interface. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use brackets to create, update and add more characteristics to the business website. For my use, which is developing my sites, I also use it privately. ### 40. Brackets is the leading text editor in customization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gilberto P. | Analista de información, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is a very interesting text editor. What I like most is its application to detect errors in the code. On the other hand, it is a customizable software with good themes to improve the interface. Among other things, it has an excellent syntax verification tool. In addition, this software can carry out large or small projects. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** This editor is usually slow. It may take more than a minute to start the application, compared to other editors such as Notepad ++ that start quickly. In addition, sometimes it can be closed without warning if you are working on a computer with few resources since the memory will not support it. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** This editor is definitely the leader in terms of customization. I recommend it to those developers who like to work with an environment adapted to their style. You can install add-ons to make the adjustments you need. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** This software provides me with an organized and highlighted view of the structure of the project code that I am developing. I also use its add-ons to upload the modifications to the company's website. In general, I prefer to program in this editor than in others because of its customization that allows me to customize almost anything. ### 41. Good tool for web design **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victoria A. | Systems Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Built -in Live Preview is definitely Brackets' coolest feature.You get to view how the changes you make in your code will impact the app almost on a line by line basis. In fact, when you edit CSS, the tag that is being worked on at any particular point time will be highlighted. What is so amazing is the fact that now even changes in PHP can be visualized on the browser. This is obviously a big win because when brackets was first launched, it didn't even have support for backend languages like PHP and now it can even reload changes on it. Popup previews , especially with hex color codes, helps me to visualize and know the exact color that I am in search of. It also happens for images within the project structure. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** The shortcoming of Live Preview is that it can only be achieved on a chrome window environment. This is obviously highly inconsiderate given the fact that developers try to imagine all scenarios of web usage where different clients use different browsers such as Firefox and Microsoft Edge. Brackets can only support web development languages in its out-of-the-box functionality which is not ideal because there are other languages used for other functions. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** If your work heavily revolves around designing web pages and web applications then I think that Brackets will serve you well the same way it has served me. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Brackets for our company's web development projects because this is Brackets' forte and it would be unwise to try and use it any other way. Both the front end, database and backend are all implemented right within Brackets. ### 42. Simple text editor for designing UI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rickardo Penn O. | Junior Web Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets' focus on front end development is a refreshing entry in a pool of editors and IDEs which mostly focus on backend languages like php and relegate html, javascript and css as afterthoughts. I have com to learn that is is exponentially easier to write design user interface modules on brackets than it is on any other editor. Brackets Live Preview feature is also one of the best things about it too. It enables you to view files in the browser with server behaviour instead of going through the file:/// format which a lot of times fails to emulate how a server would actually respond. And the fact that this can be achieved with the mere click of the mouse instead of writing up code for a server is actually underrated in my opinion. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Well, Brackets' biggest upside is also its main upset to me. The fact that it focuses a lot on the front end part of web design means that it does not effectively implement features that can assist in backend development. For instance, support for languages such as php and pythons is so rudimentary that you won't really enjoy working with such languages on it. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** I would honestly encourage you to try out this text editor especially if you mainly focus on front end web development **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Brackets is what I use to quickly design and implement the front end modules of our applications and it as I have repeatedly said it is very helpful when used in this aspect. ### 43. Brackets is the text editor of the future **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jesus M. | Arquitecto de software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** This editor has a modern design, an excellent coding of colors in the code and very useful extensions like Beautify, Emmet or Minifier. It has a great search tool that are very complete. In addition, all documents are automatically saved each time you make a change to the code. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** There's nothing I dislike about Brackets. I like everything that is implemented in this environment. I have never had any problems with this software. It is my first line code editor. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Brackets makes my job easier. It is a modern, customizable and adaptable editor. This tool has a great documentation support and update cycle. I highly recommend it. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Brackets has a workspace that facilitates the reading of HTML code, which is the programming language in which I frequently work. It helps me with automatic word completion. It also allows me to run unit tests from the editor. I also appreciate your marking functions. ### 44. A bare minimum toll for front end development **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Grace M. | UI/UX Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is able to achieve the simplicity as experienced on Notepad++ without losing core functionality such as expected in an IDE. It has an amazing plugins page from which you can find thousands of plugins that you can use to extend its functionality and thus achieve more in your User Interface development process. I also find Brackets' live preview one of the most direct features in an editor. It is just a one click process and I don't have to go around installing a webserver and creating node tests for running the server. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Brackets may support syntax for backend languages such as PHP and python but that's just as far as it can go for languages that are not UI based. Whereas it is good that an editor chooses to focus on just one element of web development, this is not convenient for fullstack developers because you would have to use another code editor to develop the backend of your application **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** If you are exclusively a UI designer then Brackets is going to fit rightly in your path as a developer so I wholeheartedly suggest that you give it a chance **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Brackets priamrily when design simple UI elements that only require CSS and javascript to a limited extent. I find Brackets quite useful for these stages of development because I don't have to tinker around with package.json files and any other kind of file ### 45. Takes a great deal of the migraines out of think about what the front end will resemble **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gerardo O. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** easy to utilize uncommonly for speedy changes I truly like its look and believe and straightforwardness, simple task route, Github support, lightweight I am presently utilizing it for web advancement utilizing respond and Brackets help me to see my Package With a tick on the live review catch, Brackets will open the present record naturally in your default program, this spares you a great deal time additionally when you change something in the code, it will consequently be stacked in the program so you don'tneed to reload the page everytime. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** I might want little tips when you run the application demonstrating all the device includes Its is basically worried in front end Not for back end dialects I have to check my code before distributing it. is somewhat troublesome when you have to review extends on PHP **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Live review is magnificent folks Good fundamental editorial manager without libraries to help intellisense. This product helps webdesigners, bioinformatics individuals and furthermore easygoing clients I might want to prescribe this manager to all software engineers for a code or information altering. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having the option to hard code and the capacity to have a practically self-aid a portion of the commonplace components, this application has diminished the time it takes to create front-end website pages I don't know whether I'd think of it as an issue Live Preview and some incredible improvement inside programs have made the relocation simpler I'm utilizing Brackets for Web Development and it encourages me for quicker advancement via auto invigorating the site pages when changes are being spared ### 46. "Wonderfull Framework for Coding" **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manish N. | Web Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** In This Brackets, Code easily customizable, Modification, Editable and writable **What do you dislike about Brackets?** In This Brackets, There's no dislike but sometimes it hangs **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Brackets which is used for Codings like that VS Code or Notepad++, so use every one **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are Lots of benefits like that all file is open at the same time ### 47. Great text editor and IDE! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim Y. | Tim, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** I like the variety of plugins that can be used. There are many plugins that exist for Brackets, such as beautify, which essentially makes your HTML/CSS/JS etc. code look more appealing to the eye. Brackets is available for Mac, Windows and Linux and is a project started and maintained by Adobe. However, it’s not a commercial product but rather an open source piece of software licensed under the MIT license. Of course, the biggest benefit for users: Brackets is completely free to use. While typing, Brackets will propose code elements that fit your current input. You can accept the proposal at the touch of a button, which is a nice shortcut to writing everything out completely. Of course, find and replace is also available. No code editor should be without. Quick editing also works with JavaScript functions. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** The load times can be slower on older machines. However, that is kind of expected. Unfortunately though, as a frontend editor, Brackets only has native support for HTML, CSS and JavaScript (though more can be added via extensions). **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Get beautify. You won't regret. It has amazing features for fixing up your ugly code! **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps with formatting of web applications. Using it's "beautify" plugin, it's possible to make messy code look nice. ### 48. A text editor with good features to develop your projects **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan F. | Programador de Java, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** Brackets is an editor with excellent features such as automatic correction and autocomplete functions. It has a modern and stable work environment. In addition, it has good plugins such as CSSLint to highlight the CSS code errors and the parts that should be improved, and eqFTP, to transfer files from the editor to a web server. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Sometimes, I have problems with the search commands, since you may not find matches for things as simple as an uppercase or lowercase letter. Apart from that, I also consider that the editor should automatically recognize the type of file that is opened, instead of manually selecting it. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** It is a modern IDE, it has very powerful complements and in comparison with other editors that exist, I personally consider that they are not as fast as this one. I recommend it, especially for people who want to enjoy shortcuts and autocorrections that are not found in traditional editors. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** This software benefits us greatly from the point of view of a developer, for the preview of the code and its automatic correction and autocomplete functions. In addition, it was very easy to learn their keyboard shortcuts, which now facilitate coding. ### 49. Awesome, Fast, Lightweight Editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mani K. | Mani, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Brackets?** The best open source code editor highly usable for new web pages or sites creation. Provides one of the simplest interface to web designers. Provides live preview of web pages efficiently. **What do you dislike about Brackets?** Sometimes it is likely to shutdown unexpectedly. Would be nice if Brackets had an easy way to export and share code between users. **Recommendations to others considering Brackets:** Best for development of browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome. A clean simple UI with an excellect dark theme.It has a good number of useful plugins to extend functionality. **What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you?** The best/great tool for editing CSS and HTML codes and classes. Since, we use it for website creation it helps to manage multiple tools at once.The live preview feature is extremely helpful. Some of the extensions are very simple, like adding themes. The recently added file tree feature is really a time saver. ### 50. 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