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Users consistently praise the live preview feature, which allows real-time updates in the browser, enhancing the coding experience. The clean interface and lightweight design make it accessible for both beginners and experienced developers, facilitating a smooth workflow. However, some users note that it lacks robust support for backend development, limiting its versatility.

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Manu V.
MV
Manu V.
Senoir Software Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best Text Editor for developers"
5/5
What do you like best about Brackets?

Brackets is a simple text editor developed by Adobe. It supports almost every programming language and provides suggestions, corrections, and syntax highlighting depending on the programming language we type. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brackets?

Brackets is a good text editor and built with all the necessary tools needed for a text editor. Til my use, no issue is worth noticing and impressed with its rich features. The support provided by Adobe is excellent. They are improving the product with every update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Andi S.
Website Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"The Simple, Light-Weight, and Free Code Editor for Anybody"
5/5
What do you like best about Brackets?

When it comes to software, Brackets is about as lean as it gets. There's not much to it and it takes virtually zero effort to hop in and get started on a project. That said, its open-source nature makes it even more powerful thanks to an active community of supporters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brackets?

Unfortunately, Adobe has ended its support for Brackets as of this year. This leaves the application and its future somewhat up-in-the-air and that worries me because it really is powerful on its own but the concern that it may suddenly lose support entirely if the community moves on to other projects is very worrisome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seth Matthew M.
SM
Seth Matthew M.
Grad Student
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great for newer coders"
5/5
What do you like best about Brackets?

What I really like is that brackets feels like a modern text editor. Granted, text editors are supposed to be fairly simple and paired down, but this text editor actually feels like a pleasant, modern piece of software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brackets?

To be honest, there's really not a lot that I dislike about it. It seems to fulfill my needs really well. The one thing that I wish it did was that it made the debuggin in tools more easily understandable and that it could execute files rather than just write them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sujith S.
SS
Sujith S.
Senior Software Development Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"The Text Editor We Need"
5/5
What do you like best about Brackets?

Brackets provide a lot of suggestions while writing codes, and it supports all types of programming languages. While we type the code, it shows suggestions and corrections that make it easy for developers to write efficient codes. It doesn't need any previous experience to use its tools and features. Even a beginner can quickly get it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brackets?

Till now, I'm very much satisfied with brackets support, and they are providing timely updates for improving user experience. In the past few years, they improved a lot, and as a user, I'm satisfied with their support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Olaf S.
Marketing Director
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy, intuitive code editor"
4/5
What do you like best about Brackets?

One of the most appealing features of Brackets is its clean, minimalistic interface. The result is more coding "real estate" within the program interface and less distraction from UI elements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brackets?

So far, I can't pinpoint anything specific that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aaditya Saha G.
AG
Aaditya Saha G.
Software Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great and handy as a Tool"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Brackets?

The visual appeal of the product is much more than just an editor.Offering just the right amount of help required rather than nagging on with features available.

Features like Live Preview, Quick Edit, Quick View, Quick Docs and Code Hints for JavaScript, HTML and CSS. These features should help us to navigate, inspect and find the information we need at your fingertips Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brackets?

Serves the purpose of being a Web Development editor best, but for a person working on other languages this could not be a much sought after factor.

Adding plugins and customisations could be easier on the editor which would be an addon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanjit P.
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Sanjit P.
Software Engineer 1
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"My review on Brackets"
5/5
What do you like best about Brackets?

Best inline coding and syntax highlighting.

Live preview feature can be used to work simultaneously.

Support for the many different languages with code auto-completion.

Provides a marketplace to add custom add-ons makes things is easy to configure.

Ability to code pretty formatting and syntax checking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brackets?

Does not include an autosave option default.

Not much elegant compared to other competitors.

Sometimes the app hands and runs into an unexpected shutdown. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anmol K.
AK
Anmol K.
Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Review of Brackets"
4/5
What do you like best about Brackets?

It has a very User-Friendly interface making it easy for users to navigate different things.

One of its features, which I appreciate the most is its Live preview feature which many other IDE's fail to offer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brackets?

It has a long boot-up time which leaves a bad impression on the user working on it.

It does not have a lot of plugins integration which is quite a setback.

It sometimes lags when working on large projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Web Development Rookie"
4/5
What do you like best about Brackets?

The most useful feature and what I liked best was the ability to quickly render the HTML code and open the webpage for it in a browser of my choosing. Also, I liked that I can open the webpage side to side to my code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brackets?

I personally dislike the childish look of it. I first used it to teach elementary level kids HTML and CSS because the interface is very easy to work with but might be too simple for a professional developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Apparel & Fashion
UA
Verified User in Apparel & Fashion
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Brackets is a brilliant tool for HTML Emails"
5/5
What do you like best about Brackets?

I like how it reveals when my html code is broken using colour coded type and the live previews that show how it will be seen to a customer. The preview windows are also responsive as they use Chrome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brackets?

It would be great to get hints of why my code is broken, sometimes it highlights it as red but it could potentially give hints as to what would fix that particular bit of html. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.