Please recommend Javascript software

[Gary Williams]

Hi All,

Can anyone recommend an effective Javascript editor (or development environment?).

I use Homesite at present as it colour codes the script but, whilst I'm still learning javascript, I could use the help of software to pick up on my dumb mistakes. You know, missing braces, etc.

Regards

Gary

[liorean]

Good tools for checking code are Venkman (Mozilla's JavaScript Debugger), Mozilla's and Opera's JavaScript consoles, and to some amount Microsoft's Script Debugger.

Good tools for writing are SciTE, TextPAD, Ultraedit and a number of other tools.

Another tool you might be interested in, is jslint (http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jslint.html).


Other than that, you might be interested in [theList] (http://lists.evolt.org/), WD-L (http://webdesign-l.com/), these forums, JS-Jive (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JS-Jive).

For JavaScript References, see my signature.

[beetle]

I code all my javascript in TextPad or Dreamweaver MX, and debug with Mozilla or Opera 7.

[eggman]

I use MSDN (MS Developer Network) which came with a whole slew of languages and utilities. The debugger is especially useful and informative.

[RadarBob]

BBedit. Sorry, runs on Macintosh only.

But BBedit v7 is the best for hand coding, IMHO.

I've tried PC editors including TextPad, PFE, Homesite, HTML-Kit, and SlickEdit. Even experimented with MS Word - that lasted about 35 seconds! These all fall short of BBEdit in some way. I'm so damn fed up with PC editors that I FTP files down to my macintosh and edit there.

BBEdit functionality matching HTML tags and braces / parenthesis / curley brackets is particularly good. BBEdit can handle Mac, Unix, and DOS linefeed/carrage returns. Properly colorcodes Javascript, VB Script, ASP, HTML, Perl, C, C++, Java, et. al. My experince is that it colorcodes HTML, ASP, and Javascript *simultaneiously.* Oh, and FTP is built-in so saving a file via FTP is as easy as command-shift-S.

After using BBEdit, no other editor, PC or Mac, is up to par.

Check it out at www.barebones.com

[beetle]

Originally posted by RadarBob
BBEdit testimonial Sounds dangerously close to Dreamweaver MX. Although, BBEdit seems to handle more computing languages, while Dreamweaver handles more web languages (JSP, PHP, CFML, CSS, etc)

[Skyzyx]

For hand coders, I'd say my favorites are BBEdit for Mac OS, and Homesite for Windows.

Homesite for dummies would probably be Dreamweaver.

[jkd]

*cough* Ultraedit (http://www.ultraedit.com).

The only editor I use. Owns BBEdit from what I've used of it.

[liorean]

Originally posted by jkd
*cough* Ultraedit (http://www.ultraedit.com).

The only editor I use. Owns BBEdit from what I've used of it.

Ultraedit comes with a heap of features, about the same as TextPad, and can be used for much... But I don't like it's interface and the lack of some of the more intuitive behaviors on windows machines.
TextPad & UltraEdit are good web language editors, but for programming languages such as ruby, c/c++ or javascript I'd still go with SciTE. No other windows editor I know of has source folding, which makes up for any and all features it might lack compared to the other two.

[Gary Williams]

Hi Guys,

Definately a diversity of opinion. All you guys are experienced javascripters so Textpad, etc is fine for. I'm a relative newbie so I could do with a bit more help from the software to keep me on track with syntax, etc.

I'm using webscripter from:

http://www.codegeneration.com/

What do you all think of this product?

Gary