Brackets for Linux

Brakets 1.14 is a cross-platform scripting tool, available on Windows, Linux and Mac, aimed at users who are front-end developers and web designers.

The main interface of web programming tool Brackets

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Although a source code editor and can be used to code any user's needs, Brackets is optimized for HTML, CSS and JavaScript languages ​​(as well as its derivatives). like SASS, Less, CoffeeScript .). Developers using Ruby, Python or PHP languages ​​should probably look to Komodo source editor.

Main features of the Brackets source code tool

• Drafting quickly.
• JSLint.
• Quick Edit feature allows quick editing.
• Open source.
• Powerful Live Preview feature.
• Extract directly from PSD.
• Attractive graphical interface.
• Syntax highlight and autocomplete.

Video for installing Brackets on Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint 17

New in Brackets 1.6

• Add flip-view to easily transfer files between panels.
• Close button Close button allows you to close a working file from a separate window.
• Split View allows you to open a file on two panels to compare sections.
• Improved JavaScript code suggestions for displaying more information such as file types, files related to functions (or variables), and hyperlinks.
• Switch between the control panel and focus mode.Focus mode can be activated with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + 2 to hide the toolbar to the right of the interface.Control panels can also be switched back and forth with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + ~.

Quick Edit feature

One of the most outstanding features of Brakets is the ability to quickly edit certain elements such as CSS classes or JavaScript functions. Instead of searching for a certain class in thousands of CSS lines, users simply need to use Ctrl + E to search (in all the lines of the open folder) and Brackets will identify the class that you Searching for corrections.

Quick Edit feature allows quick editing and color preview

Hovering over certain elements in the open folder will also cause Brackets to bring up a popup window, giving users the ability to change colors quickly without having to reload the page.

Live Preview feature

When working with Brackets in the browser, users can use the Live Preview feature to let the software itself load the changes when there are modifications on the CSS or save the HTML file. This gives users the ability to highlight certain paragraphs in the editor and update those changes immediately on their website without having to perform a save operation. This tool is very useful for programmers because it will be much faster to switch to the browser and reload the page to see the changes you have just made.

See changes right on the page without reloading with the Live Preview feature

The extension

With Brakets, users can easily install additional extensions (extensions) by clicking on the second icon in the toolbar on the right. But be aware that the installation of these extensions needs to be suitable for each different version of Linux. Although the number of extensions is not really much, they all bring quite good effect for editing the source code.

The extension works with JavaScript language

For the Linux version, installing extensions is not yet supported, but you can download those extensions separately and extract them to ~ / .Brackets / extensions / user and restart to start using. .

Image processing

Although a well-developed, well-written editor, Brackets does not have the ability to open images or the ability to define applications to open similar files. This feature is still being edited for the Linux version, and for the time being, the Show in OS feature will allow users to open their working files in the file manager manually. However, users can still preview the image by hovering the mouse over the path of the HTML img src attribute .

Ability to process images and Show in OS tools

Brackets is growing very fast with the help of Adobe and Brakets' growing user community. When bugs related to Linux version and missing features are added, Brackets will become a great solution for those who are looking for an open source software that supports website design and is completely free. .

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