Brackets 1.9 released, a code editor for web developers

Brackets is an open source text editor developed by Adobe. It is primarily designed for front-end web development ( HTML, CSS and Javascript).

Some of it’s key features are like – light weight, quick code editing, Javascript debugging and live browser testing. Make change to your code and they reflect in real-time inside the browser. Currently, by default, it supports the Chrome browser but they are working on it to extend this to other browsers as well.

Brackets comes with inline CSS editor, where you move your mouse to a CSS ID, press shortcut key (Ctrl + E) and the editor will show you all the CSS selectors with that ID in an inline window so you can work on your code side-by-side without any popups.  Also,  with the extension manage it brings the extension support to enhance it’s functionality.

Brackets is hosted on GitHub. You can download the .deb file for Brackets 1.9 from there.

 

 

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.