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February 20, 2021
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Hello All. I'm doing a Udemy Bootstrap 4 video now. I started using Visual Studio Code because the person teaching the course is using it.

My question is what code editor do you use and which one do you think is the best? I am just curious. Thank you!

Ben

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BenPleysier

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As one Ben to another Ben, stay with VS. The integrated Monaco editor and available addons make VS the best free-of-charge IDE.

Wappler is the DMXzone-made Dreamweaver replacement and includes the best of their powerful extensions, as well as much more!

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beng2000Author

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Thanks Ben. I will use VS for this class. I feel like using Dreamweaver all these years as a WYSIWIG has kept me away from coding. I am enjoying coding in VS.

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osgood_

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If youre a serious web developer then using a semi-automated work flow is never a good idea as you become dependent and never bother to look 'outside a small box' your working within.

Taking the leap of faith and actually learning to code will pay off eventually, the freedom it brings is quite satisfying and will allow you to explore beyond just pointing and clicking or dropping and dragging.

Of course this route is not to the taste of everyone, only those that are seriously involved in web-development in some capacity.

Good luck with the learning.

Whilst its good to learn Bootstrap which you mentioned dont fall into the trap of becoming dependent on that either as its about 2 years behind current web building trends, ie v5 is not even 'stable' at the moment for production work and doesnt support css grid which is now a main stream workflow when producing websites.

Your probably better off learning v5 for any new build website than v4 as that has a lot of significant updates and most likely wont be too long before a 'stable' production release is available.

Nancy OShea

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For site management, I haven't found anything nearly as good as Dreamweaver. So that's my tool of choice most of the time. But Dreamweaver is not the only tool in my toolbox.

Try everything and use whichever tools work best for you and your project. There is no one-size-fits-all.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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osgood_

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In my opinion Visual Studio Code is the best free editor currently available for web-development.

Other free editors that l use and rate in order are:

Sublime Text (nearly as good as Visual Studio Code)

Net Beans

Brackets

Atom

Komodo Edit

The very best paid for editors are in my opinion:

Web Storm and Php Storm by Jet Brains. Php Storm is the premier editor if you are working with complex php

There are plenty of other paid for editors, such as Nova by Panic and Codelobster, all of which might be suitable, depending on what it is you feel comfortable with. Some developers like editors which are laden with many options whilst good coders may choose something less obtuse.

Of course Dreamweaver, which l used for a good number of years, has good management tools and a visual environment but over the past few years its generally become stagnant in terms of keeping up with developing trends. In my opinion l would expect more from a paid for product.

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beng2000Author

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Thank you Nancy. This was very informative and helpful.

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