Codekit 2 is out

My goodness, this thread is actually worse then reddit. I never thought I would see such garbage in Hacker News before. This guy is releasing a new version of his product, of which thousands probably use. He just so happens to have a sense of humor (which anyone who has used Codekit before would know about) and you guys are picking him apart like a piece of turkey.<p>I actually can&#x27;t believe what I am reading atm, has this industry really gotten to a point where nobody has a sense of humor or any congratulatory comments anymore? And everyone is force to pick apart every single thing?

<i>nonchalantly getting out credit card to pay for a great upgrade to an app I use daily to make a living while browsing through bitter comments from people that probably never even used the damn app</i>

CodeKit is awesome and Bryan is a funny guy. I&#x27;m surprised that so many people don&#x27;t get the humour on the website. I love it. Shows me Bryan&#x27;s a real genuine person.<p>Oh and he&#x27;s built an awesome product that makes my life so much easier... and he doesn&#x27;t demand I pay the earth for it. #win

Looks very promising and like a great upgrade from CodeKit 1.0 of which I&#x27;ve been a happy user for the last 1.5 years. The creator has provided excellent support every time I contact him.<p>I LOVE the sense of humor in the testimonials section... LULz<p>My one concern is does CK 2.0 create standard config files for Bower, Grunt, etc... CK 1.0 did NOT do this and made collaborating with non Mac &#x2F; non CK users difficult!

Codekit is a beautiful, comprehensive and powerful solution for those who don&#x27;t want to&#x2F;don&#x27;t feel comfortable setting up Grunt or Gulp. If you&#x27;re one of those people, it comes highly recommended.

Threads like this are why I don&#x27;t waste my time on sites like this.

A bit frustration that it is a paid upgrade for Codekit 1.0 users - doesn&#x27;t seem like that much has been changed, and it&#x27;s not as if the first version saw a ton of updates.

I bought CodeKit 1 a while ago and about a week later he announced he had been working on CodeKit 2. Basically, my purchase was immediately abandonware. He&#x27;s released no new features and very few updates (just library updates) since then. When I contacted him he wrote a short message back saying there will be no free upgrades to CodeKit 2. Stuff like this just teaches me not to trust these companies, I&#x27;m always going to get screwed. So, instead of investing myself to configure CodeKit and make it a part of my development pipeline, I moved over to Grunt. I didn&#x27;t get to use CodeKit 1 on a single project because I knew it was already abandoned. It took me an hour or so to optimize my grunt file and get used to it but it&#x27;s all been for the best. Grunt won&#x27;t abandon me or gouge me for more money. I&#x27;ve also been using Adobe Brackets (and playing with GitHub Atom) a lot lately and it will probably soon replace the expensive Coda 2 that Panic never updates. I&#x27;ve never really been a huge open-source guy but the actions of Mac developers are pushing me that way.

I like CodeKit. It safes me time&#x2F;work to focus on more pressing matters.

I like what I&#x27;m seeing, however the main gripe I have is that it doesn&#x27;t seem to be cross-platform; it looks like it&#x27;s a GUI for Grunt configuration (it seems to have similar options) though.<p>Compare Maven &#x2F; Ant &#x2F; Gradle for the Java world, instead of builds configured in the IDE; said IDE&#x27;s often have a GUI component for major build configuration files.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t mind a GUI for Grunt configs, without sensible code refactoring, those can be a bitch to maintain.

I&#x27;m currently using gulp + browserify, it&#x27;s basically the same set of features (modules, compilation, livereload), but free.<p>Maybe a little more configuration necessary though.

Set aside a few strange things you find on this website (e.g. testimonies sound fake...), CodeKit is an excellent program, I&#x27;ve been using for a few years.<p>GruntJS and Gulp essentially do the same thing of course, but CodeKit I guess &#x27;interfaces&#x27; all those text-based configurations and once it&#x27;s configured, well, it&#x27;s pretty much done and you can just let it run in the background and forget about it.<p>Highly recommend it!

Damn, if I ever need to start taking web development seriously (right now it&#x27;s only something I do for my little personal projects), I think I will buy this tool. The interface looks very nice, and it seems to integrate and simplify all sorts of useful features and workflows that I&#x27;ve seen described elsewhere (usually at length, with lots of documentation on how to get them working).

Another solution to the &#x27;elephant in the room&#x27; - that frontend workflows have become too complicated for frontend developers.

Reading the testimonies made me wonder if this whole thing was a joke or not.<p>Looks cool otherwise though...

A few thoughts:<p><pre><code> - 2min and 54secondes of demo video to explain the localhost address. Sooo, boring. - At first, it sounded like another text editor but it&#x27;s not. - It seems that&#x27;s just a GUI skin to CLI tools</code></pre>

Prepros does all that for free, and it works in Mac and Windows. I could never get my shop on to Codekit because the developer refuses to port to Windows.

Perhaps the best testimonials I&#x27;ve seen on an app.

I really don&#x27;t see the value of having the compile toolchain in your editor. If you are making a serious front-end project, you will have created a gulp&#x2F;grunt based workflow so that anyone with node installed can compile it. If you rely on Codekit&#x27;s features, surely you&#x27;re locking people into that editor?<p>Is it really so hard to open a command window and run a single command?

This URL crashes Chrome on iOS.

Some people in this thread really need some tuning in their sarcasm detector.

&quot;A Mac App for Cool People&quot;<p>Did they really have to resort to a level that low?

The best thing on the page was the face palm user image.

“You don’t have permission to save the file ‘CodeKit’ to the folder ‘Library’.”<p>This crap doesn’t even start. Sent it straight to the trash.