Brackets does have a large amount of flexibility, and Adobe helps developers to write extensions and get started.Gedit is an easy-to-use and general-purpose text editor. There’s also an extension for GitHub integration and no shortage of themes, including some that try to replicate Dreamweaver. The most popular include Emmet, a high-speed HTML and CSS workflow, Beautify which formats Javascript, HTML and CSS files, and file icons for Brackets’ file tree. It’s a process that much less friendly than the simple customization and theme choices offered by other text editors but Brackets does also provide extensions that any developer can create. Quick Edit and Live Highlight work with LESS and SCSS files which Adobe claims makes them easier to work with.īrackets is released under an MIT license, an odd choice for a commercial development firm like Adobe, but it means that developers could, if they wanted, fork the software code to personalize Brackets. And Brackets also places a strong emphasis on supplying preprocessor support. Live Preview, another of the program’s standout features, lets you see changes made in CSS and HTML immediately on the screen.

It’s much cleaner and neater than having to deal with pop-ups. Place a cursor over an ID and press a couple of keys, and you’ll be able to see all of the CSS selectors with that ID in an inline window. Quick Edit, for example, one of the program’s main features, allows inline editing of CSS. Instead of offering support to as wide a range of languages as possible, Brackets focuses on developers using Javascript, CSS and HTML. Visual tools are baked into the editor and the program is intended to make design in the browser easy to perform. While other text editors try to please every kind of developer, Brackets is targeted directly at Web designers and front-end developers.

Launched at the end of 2014, Brackets is a lightweight text editor created by Adobe.

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