Brackets: The Open Source Code Editor for the Web

This looks pretty awesome, I was about to suggest you put it on kickstarter but then realized it's already backed by adobe which is pretty cool. Could you tell us how involved Adobe is in this project and what their goals are? Do you plan to make it usable directly from the browser using the file system API? Do you plan to support other languages such as ruby and python? Also you kind of sound like Abed from Community :)

Looks great, game changing in fact. It seems to be quite inline with Brent Victor's vision (<a href="http://vimeo.com/36579366" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/36579366</a>). One thing I'd like to see stolen from his demo: Once you have direct visual feedback on what you're doing, it makes a lot of sense to have widgets for your style definitions, e.g. scales with handlebars and color pickers popping up when the cursor is over values with corresponding type. It's a great thing that this project is both funded and open source. Quite unexpected from Adobe tbh.

I just wanted to give this a try, but the "single" part not written in HTML, CSS and Javascript (the native shell it runs from) has not been ported to Linux yet.

Looks useful for static pages, but a lot of the shiny features wouldn't work for any site designed using a template library (which is any dynamic site).

"Hey, this is pretty cool!" ... "Wait... Adobe!?!" - The Internet

Looks good but this wouldn't fit into the modern-day front-end developer workflow. I'm talking about companies who use pre-processors like SASS, LESS, Stylus, CoffeeScript, Jade, HAML, etc.<p>As for live code-editing feature, you can already do a lot of these stuff in Chrome's developer tool.<p>Note: I'm a Vim user. Which I personally think is still the best text/code editor in the world.

I suppose we'll be seeing more Codemirror based editors wrapped in Webkit in the future. Well at least one more I'm sure, because I've been implementing one too. You couldn't believe how fast one can actually churn a cross platform mediocrish editor given all the great quality tooling (QTWebkit, Bootstrap, Codemirror).

The kinetic typography is too jumpy. Its hard to follow and becomes distracting.

Where have you been all my life? Oh right, it still doesn't fully exist yet, but I'm excited to contribute because being a purely JS dev I could see this saving me loads of time and frustration.

This is amazing - The best HTML5 editor I've ever seen - I just forked this and surely gonna send pull requests. Kudos for adobe and the team :)

Opening the app's codebase by default is brilliant, really lowers the barrier to entry for anyone on the fence about contributing.

Great!<p>Quote from The Brackets blog post "There are a lot of text editors out there, but not too many care exclusively about web developers" -- This is exactly why I'm building LIVEditor (<a href="http://liveditor.com" rel="nofollow">http://liveditor.com</a>)

If you find the CSS live preview stuff cool, check out <a href="http://cssrefresh.frebsite.nl/" rel="nofollow">http://cssrefresh.frebsite.nl/</a> It's awesome. Even with complicated, nested templates and CSS stuff.

Very cool app. I've been looking for a web-compatible code editor/pseudo-IDE for a long time. This one looks like it may actually go places.

I've tried Brackets on Windows but changing HTML doesn't reflect on the page. Have they implemented that yet or is it for CSS only?

There is also Eclipse Orion to look at for an open source web-based code editor. It's in beta, still, but it has definite promise.

a js scriptable modern editor is a project I wanted to build myself, if only I already had nuff time and money ;) no someone did it for me - how cool is that!<p>Now we only need to figure out one thing - way to make it <i>properly</i> support vim bindings ;)

looks cool, i suppose it could work for some stuff. but not for dyanamic octopus web code.

"We can also apply the same ideas to JavaScript development. Smash the Quick Edit key on a function call and Brackets opens an inline editor with the JavaScript function body ready for edit. Instead of managing documents, developers can dive in and out of their code with ease."<p>What, not a single mention of Light Table?

+! for them having 'starter bugs'. searched to see its not new, but first i've seen it.

This is a great effort, but it really seems like a ripoff of SublimeText, design-wise.

I do have to say, though, that after seeing the video I'm pretty sold

blah, another web IDE thingy.

"Because it’s built in JavaScript, HTML and CSS, if you use Brackets, you have the skills necessary to customize, extend and contribute to it. Easy to fork and with a flexible and open license, it truly is your editor. In fact, when you first open Brackets you’ll be looking right at the Brackets source code. On the team, we use Brackets to develop Brackets in this weird inception-style-yin-and-yang type of thing."<p>My thing is like that too, especially the inception thing, but its better for a lot of reasons because its more than just an editor and is designed to be easily extended with plugins/components.<p><a href="https://github.com/ithkuil/cureblog" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ithkuil/cureblog</a><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/43784316" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/43784316</a><p>Anyway so good try Adobe, but if Adobe really wants to do the right thing, support the open web, and build a really useful tool, they should scrap Brackets, fork my project, and start promoting that. LOL sorry dickish thing for me to say but true.