The best code editor is....

[dennisedson]

I tried to make that subject click-baity 🙂 

I am getting to be an old man and I remember learning about text-wrangler.  Remember that text editor?? Remember...Dreamweaver 😬

Kids these days are spoiled with all the options.  

Here are the questions 

1. Which code editor do you believe is the best?
2. Why is it the best?

I will be grading this exam so take your time and answer correctly 😉

[Vicka]

I discovered and loved Jetbrains IDEs for PHP and starting now with HubSpot development I use WebStorm, which is gorgeous for API calls too with http files, so what a joy it would be to get a code completion addon for WebStorm as it exists for VScode. :))

I saw on Github that somebody did it but link is broken 😞

[webdew]

Hey!

The best code editor for HubSpot are :

1. VS code
2. Sublime

I believe you should try it!

[bws9000]

I believe the best editor is the editor that works for you. Sometimes you need a few different editors. I like VS Code, WebStorm still love notepad, VIM if you're in a terminal. 👍

[dennisedson]

@bws9000 , totally agree! 

My preferred method of using VIM is to open the terminal panel in VS Code and fire it up 🤣

[bws9000]

@dennisedson i know what u mean

[ScottD22]

Been a long time Atom user and recently switched to VS Code. Can't say I miss Atom, vs code has a built in terminal and it doesn't seem to crash unlike Atom.

[prosa]

for me is intellij IDEA. this topic depends on the lang you are using. 

[dennisedson]

@prosa you are 1000 percent correct on the language business 🙂 

Also, are you a java developer? 

[prosa]

I've code in many languages. Now I'm experimenting in automation using tools like Power Automate. My Favorite frameworks to build applications are Laravel( PHP ) combined with vuejs( front-end-framework ). But, you can use IDEA for almost anything. 

[Chris-M]

I'm part of the Visual Studio Code fraction... i've used Sublime for a long time. One day a college introduced me to VSCode and since then i'm rocking it 😃

[Kevin-C]

@dennisedson 

I'm partial to VSCode with the Atom Dark theme!

@stefen Nova looks interesting! I maybe trying that out today.

[dennisedson]

Themes!  I love themes! I love walking to someone's workstation (a long time ago, I worked in the same building as other humans) and seeing what theme they were using.  For their code editor and terminal!

[Kevin-C]

Recently learned about Hyper terminal from one of Dr. Angela Yu's courses. I've not used it but it seems to be getting popular!

[dennisedson]

a:  hyper looks super cool.  I have been using iTerm2 for years.

b:  I had never heard of this Dr. Angela Yu.  

[stefen]

@dennisedson I've always been a Sublime Text user because it's so much faster than VS Code (native code ftw) and still offers all the customizeability. However, recently I made the switch to Nova by Panic. It's more like a full-on IDE with a built-in terminal but without all the slowness those usually put off. It comes with a whole lot of features built-in and also offers a super easy extension system.

My 2 favorite things about Nova:

1. all server credentials from Transmit are synced here as well—makes working from multiple computers less of a pain
2. you can set default syntax highlighting per file extension overwriting the default. So, even if you use obscure files like say you have a file called "hubspot.hubl" you can set all ".hubl" files to use the HTML-Twig syntax (one of the syntax extensions that closely matches HubL formatting).

[dennisedson]

😍

How long has Nova been out?  I feel like I received a notification of it being in development a year ago....or 5. I have always been a fan of anything Panic built!

It is like a slap in the face when I am forced to use Filezilla instead of Transmit