What tools are you using for Development?

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What tools are you using For Developing Applications in? i currently switched to PHPstorm and its amazing 😍 but would be interesting to see what others are using

Markus Bodner · Accepted Answer

Every 6 months or so I stick my head out and look at others like Atom and VSCode. I always end up sticking with ST3 plus a few new plugins, can't recommend it enough.

Milan Chheda · Answer

Best in the market. Extremely light weight. Has tons of plugins and ultra fast. I have used others too, but nothing comes close to Sublime Text 3.

Kunal Bhatia · Answer

After using Sublime Text for years, I switched over to visual studio code and it's been amazing. Highly recommended!

Brandon Manson · Answer

This is my go-to text editor. Super customizable and pleasant to use.

Tania Hew · Answer

Good ecosystem. Numerous packages. I like using it. And I love supporting free or open source software.

James Bovis · Answer

Great way to run a PHP server locally, especially for testing things like forms etc.

Christopher Leach · Answer

Adding onto what Brandon said, IntelliJ can also be used with numerous other languages and technologies, really just a great all around application.

Andrés Valera · Answer

Amazing editor that's being constantly getting better

Mathieu 👨🏾‍💻 · Answer

Atom is the easiest editor to customize. And it is totally free and open source. What else ?

Mozammil · Answer

Great GUI client if you use Git!

Eugene Stepnov · Answer

I am a co-founder of that tool, but we are using it for our development too :)

Naveen santhosh · Answer

Supports multiple accounts, Git and mercurial repositories, meaningful visualizations. I use this to manage all my open-source and client work in the same place. I hardly use the terminal for anything related to Git.

Tanishq Sharma · Answer

Fast, apart from being an avid IntellJ user, I have grown to their syntax highlighting schemes and all other notions. (Android Studio included!)

Ben Carlsen · Answer

I love its versatility. It's already a complete coding solution for any codebase you want to use it with, and with just a couple plugins it's become my go to app for writing blog posts with Markdown. No need to use anything else.

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I use atom-beta, same greatness.  Extendable, cross platform, fits all my needs.

Kyriakos Ziakoulis · Answer

The way it marks files on the sidebar based on source control status is the thing that made me move from Sublime Text 3 to Atom !

Dave Newman · Answer

Love that it's free and open source and has a huge library of packages to extend functionality.

Wade Garrett · Answer

Super easy to serve static site's locally with a clean URL, but you can also share any/all of your local site's with anyone on the same network as you using the .xip.io URL.

We even took it a step further to automate the process with simple python script that automatically added a site to Anvil based on certain parameters.

Jared Schaffer · Answer

So much easier to work w/ S3. Web interface is kinda sketchy and SSH is a PITA.

Jonathan Olsson · Answer

We use Favro to plan all of our development.

Eivind Lindbråten · Answer

Super simple and quick deployments from the command line. Also lets you buy domains from the command line. Speeds up deployment steps a lot!

Jesús Barón · Answer

It just makes build responsive emails more pleasant. Live rendering allows you see the end result as you code and switching between Desktop or Mobile view you can see the responsive behavior in real-time.

Joel Oliveira · Answer

Neovim is the future of VI* and has quickly proved to be ready for "daily driver" use. As a longtime VIM user it took very little to make the switch but I've been happy from the start.

As for a more specific answer to "Why?" - the answer is "power and versatility"

Sebastian Rank · Answer

It's the best for Android development

Ton · Answer

One of the few native Mac code-editors. Has a gorgeous innovative UI and is an absolute joy to use. Comes with a very nice CSS editor with Xray mode to preview and debug your CSS stuff. Also: a host of  other features that need a website to be shown. About the only thing missing is an impressive list of plugins and extensions that some of the other editors have. But they're working on that. Note: v3 used to be. It's v5 right now, as the numbering scheme has been changed to 'Sketch format'.

Robin van der Ploeg · Answer

A great all-in-one solution for developers.

Rahul Dewan · Answer

Works great for putting up reference material or testing quickly on an actual device with simulator

Brandon Manson · Answer

I am also the creator of this product, but I use it frequently to cut down on the amount of time I spend writing Swagger specs!

Niklaus Gerber · Answer

Go to App. Period

Catalin Pop · Answer

Good for web develpment (javascript / typescript) with nice debugging and major support for popular libraries: React, Angular , Vue , etc..

ajimix · Answer

App that you need if you are a dev

Enoch Leonard · Answer

Indispensable tool for programmers at any level.

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iTerm is by far the best replacement for Mac OS standard terminal, Split Panes, Autocomplete, Search saves me so much time.

Abhishek Biswal · Answer

Better than all the API Development & testing tools available out there (including chrome plugins). Sync features, Collaboration & Collections make it more awesome.

Brandon Manson · Answer

I use this tool on a daily basis to test my own APIs as well as APIs I'm looking to integrate with. I cannot think of a better tool to help with rapidly prototyping an API.

Bryan ROUX · Answer

Using since a while ! Very cool

Jared Schaffer · Answer

Pretty awesome suite of tools bundled through Fabric for iOS development. I'm using Crashlytics, Answers, Digits, Stripe, and Branch & Fastlane for beta distribution automation.

Bent Stamnes · Answer

I'm naturally biased, but for native iOS and Android development with a focus on user experience, animation and writing less code, Fuse is the s#%t. :)

Brandon Manson · Answer

IntelliJ is the best Java editor on the market right now. It plays very nicely with Maven and Gradle and is nice to work with for local development as well.

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Amazing.  Don't even have to be developing in Java to find IntelliJ IDEA streamlining your development.  built in terminal and plugins make it amazing tool

Eighty9 💻 · Answer

Nice to use , can run the database and terminal in one window and ive made less mistakes using it since