Friday, February 28, 2014

In search of an HTML5 IDE

In my pursuit to find a decent development environment for HTML I tried gedit, sublime text, redcar, komodo edit and netbeans.

I was trying to find an eclipse plugin but could not find one for HTML5 and javascript though I rememeber seeing a javascript developer edition of eclipse in helios.
After playing a couple of days with various editors I settled on Netbeans. Its much lighter than eclipse.

Netbeans 7.4 is fantastic in terms of code auto completion. It also provides excellent inline documentation when you are writing code and gives browser compatibility of html tags and css styles.

It provides you facility to include various javascript libraries for development when you are creating a new project.

It also provides you options to build the right starting library for your HTML5 app. You can choose between bootstrap, HTML5 boilerplate and Modernizr

So far it has been working pretty well for me.