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My Recommended Brackets Extensions

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You can learn a lot by trying new things. Over the past 18 months I have been

switching IDEs and editors every few months going between Atom, Visual Studio,

Brackets, WebStorm, and Sublime … and then back again. This has given me anappreciation of the various tools, all of which have their pros. For most of that time I

have been living in OSX and lately I’m loving Brackets (http://brackets.io/).

Brackets is lightweight, browser-based, and has a great extension model. I feel very

productive in it and can run fast and hard when I get a coding itch I need to scratch. I

feel as fast in Sublime and Atom, but have been enjoying the plugins and feel of

Brackets more so.

Recently I published a course on Gulp at Pluralsight (http://jpapa.me/gulpps) and

have presented many sessions at conferences using Brackets. One of the first

questions I get is “What theme are you using?” soon followed by “What other

extensions do you use for Brackets?” To save time, I figured I’d post about some of

my favorite extensions for Brackets. (Learn more about all of the extensions by

clicking on the title.)

I love Visual Studio as an IDE (on Windows) and WebStorm (on a Mac), but

for super fast editing I vastly prefer a lightning quick editor. Then when I need

more powerful features I jump back to an IDE such as Visual Studio or

WebStorm.

Brackets Extensions

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AngularJS Code Hints (https://github.com /sirajc/Brackets-AngularJS-CodeHints/)Extend Brackets HTML code hints and collif’s Brackets-HTML5CodeHints

(https://github.com/coliff/Brackets-HTML5CodeHints) with AngularJS elements like

ng-include, ng-view and attributes such as ng-class, ng-controller, ng-app.

Autopre�xer (https://github.com/mikaeljorhult /brackets-autopre�xer)Brackets/Edge Code extension that parses CSS documents and add vendor prefixes

automatically. This extension uses Autoprefixer (https://github.com/postcss

/autoprefixer) which adds/removes vendor prefixes according to data from Can I Use

(http://caniuse.com).

Autosave on View Change (https://github.com /marcantony/brackets-autosave-on-view-change)

Autosaves the current document, if changed, when switching to another document oron window blur (when switching away from Brackets to something else).

Beautify (https://github.com/drewhamlett /brackets-beautify)Brackets Extension that formats open HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files using

js-beautify. Cmd-Shift-L (Mac) / Ctrl-Shift-L (Win) key.

Brackets Bower (https://github.com/albertinad

/brackets-bower)Install/Update/Remove a package from Bower, prune the bower folder, and configure

bower using the .bowerrc file.


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Click the bower icon in the Brackets right border.

Install or update packages.

Modify the .bowerrc file.

Brackets Css Color Preview (https://github.com /cmgddd/Brackets-css-color-preview)CSS color preview extension for Brackets. You can toggle this extension to enable it

from the view menu.


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Brackets File Tabs (https://github.com/crot4lus /Brackets---Tabs)Use tabs rather than the sidebar for working files. Enable by choosing Show tabs in

the View menu.

Brackets Git (https://github.com/zaggino /brackets-git)Provides Git integration for Brackets

Brackets Icons (https://github.com/ivogabe /Brackets-Icons)Adds file icons from the Ionicons project (https://github.com/driftyco/ionicons) to the

Brackets file tree.


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Brackets Snippets (by edc) (https://github.com /chuyik/brackets-snippets)Add custom snippets to Brackets.


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Click on the lightbulb icon in the right border.

Then click import and choose a file to select a yaml file containing snippets. Youcan use my Angular snippets found here (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johnpapa

/angular-styleguide/master/assets/brackets-angular-snippets.yaml), to try it out.

Code Folding (https://github.com/thehogfather /brackets-code-folding)A code folding extension for Brackets based on CodeMirror’s folding addon

(http://codemirror.net/demo/folding.html). Peforms code folding based on brace ({}, [])

matching and multiline comments for javascript, json, css, php and less files. Also has

some support for html and xml files based on tag matching.

The following are the default keyboard shortcut keys for the code-folding extension.


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Ctrl-Alt-C Collapse code region at current cursor position

Ctrl-Alt-X Expand code region at current cursor position

Alt-1 Collapse all code regions in current editor

Shift-Alt-1 Expand all code regions in current editor

Duplicate Files & Folders (https://github.com /torinpascal/brackets-duplicate-extension)Duplicate files and folders in the project view.

Duplicate - Right click on a file or folder in the project view and select

"Duplicate" from the context menu.

Copy or Move - Right click on a file or folder and select "Mark" to mark the

file/folder to be copied or moved. Then right click on a file or folder at your

desired destination and then select "Move to Here" or "Copy to Here".

EditorCon�g (https://github.com/kidwm /brackets-editorcon�g)Adds support for EditorConfig (http://editorconfig.org/). What’s that? EditorConfig

allows you to use the same editor settings in multiple editors and IDEs via a config

file.

EmmetAdds support for Emmet (http://emmet.io/) commands. Super helpful for HTML

coding.

File Tree Exclude (https://github.com/gruehle /exclude-folders)Brackets extension for excluding folders from the file tree, find in files, and quick

open. By default, this extension excludes all node_modules folders

FuncDocr (https://github.com/wikunia /brackets-funcdocr)Generates JS/PHPDoc annotations for functions.

Open a JS or PHP file

Set your cursor on a function declaration

Use the shortCut Ctrl-Alt-D (Win) or Ctrl-Shift-D (Mac) to start the

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Indent Guides (https://github.com/lkcampbell /brackets-indent-guides)Shows indent guides in the code editor. Enable by selecting View and

Indent Guides .

JSCS (https://github.com/globexdesigns

/brackets-jscs) and JSHint (https://github.com /cfjedimaster/brackets-jshint)Enable JSCS and JSHint linting.

If you have disabled the default Brackets JSLinting service, you will need to manually

enable JSCS and JSHint in your Brackets preferences file.

Go to Debug and then Open Preferences File

Make sure your language.javascript.linting.prefer definition includes

"JSCS" and "JSHint"


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"language": {

"javascript": {

"linting.prefer": [

"JSHint",

"JSCS"

],

"linting.usePreferredOnly": true

}

}

I prefer to use JSHint and JSCS and disable the default of JSLint. Setting

`linting.usePreferredOnly to true disables JSLint, which comes out of the box

with Brackets.

These will look for your .jshintrc and .jscsrc files for the rules to use for linting.

You can see the violated rules in a collapsible window at the bottom of the editor

Markdown Preview (https://github.com /gruehle/MarkdownPreview)Markdown editor and preview support.

When a markdown document (with extension “.md” or “.markdown”) is open, a

markdown icon is shown in the toolbar at the top of the Brackets window. Click this


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icon to open the preview panel.

Whitespace Normalizer (https://github.com /dsbonev/whitespace-normalizer)Alters whitespace on document save:

trims trailing whitespaces

transforms tabs to spaces

ensures newline at file end

Honorable Mentions


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AngularJS for Brackets (https://github.com /angular-ui/AngularJS-brackets)QuickEdit directives, controllers and services? Put your cursor on a directive in

HTML, then click CMD + E for quick edit in Brackets. This extension will try to locate

the source code and open it in an in-line window so you can edit it.

This works in some places, but not others. Though I keep an eye on it as it is great

when it works.

Paste and Indent (https://github.com/ahuth /brackets-paste-and-indent)Automatically apply the correct indentation to pasted text.

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