Brackets Reviews & Product Details

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is somewhat a bit slow and the updater in Brackets may give sometime an error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only inconvenience I can think of is that this software requires a considerable amount of memory to run without slowing down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.