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Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design. Created by Adobe

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Electron / Atom Shell

Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is maintained by Adobe, and is released under an MIT License.

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Autocompletion Built-in Level Editor Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Live Preview Multiple languages Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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autocompletion built-in-level-editor css-editor extensible html-editor javascript-editor live-preview multi-language syntax-highlighting text-editor web-development

Brackets was added by rzelnik in Jun 2012 and the latest update was made in Jun 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2018 There is a history of all activites on Brackets in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Brackets or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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TextMate

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Brackets Comments

Useful features that are simple to use

Comment by Thelle

about Brackets · Jun 2017 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

I think Brackets has a lot of useful features and is quite simple to use!

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Comment by mandus

about Brackets · Jun 2017 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

rich with web development based addons, makes live very easy for editing and the making of websites.

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Memory hog

Comment by 10basetom

about Brackets · Jul 2014 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

Keep in mind that Brackets eats up more than 100 MB of RAM. This is a text editor that thinks it's an IDE ;). It's innovative though.

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MastroPino · Sep 2015

I switched back to SublimeText for this!