Are there any good recommendations anyone can provide for a good Javascript editor on Windows?
I currently use combinations of FireBug and TextPad but would hate to miss out on the party if there are better options out there.
Thanks.
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I use NotePad++ and am happy (of course, that is when I am not using Visual Studio).
NotePad++ contains support for intellisense type feature as well.
Vaibhav
2008-08-25 21:07:34
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The best that I've ever used is Netbeans, although its kind of heavyweight for some tasks due to being a fullblown multi-language IDE (not just Javascript). I've also had pretty good experiences with Aptana IDE, though, and I hear that IntelliJ is good if you don't mind paying the price.
jsight
2008-08-25 21:09:11
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Editra may be worth a look, the code colouring isn't bad, and I believe it has plugins to enable script execution.. Although I have not used this myself.
Rob Cooper
2008-08-25 21:09:14
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I know jsight already mentioned this, but Aptana Studio really is a great, free editor for JavaScript if you find yourself doing a lot of work with it - it has great support for most of the well-known libraries. If it were not for the fact that I work with C# in addition to JavaScript, I would use Aptana for all of my work.
Jason Bunting
2008-08-25 21:13:05
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In case you're a .Net programmer: VS 2008 has pretty great JS support including intellisense on dynamically added methods/properties and comfortable debugging.
Manu
2008-08-25 22:02:23
To anyone still searching - these are not the droids you're looking for. VS 2008 may be *OK*, but is far from great. Even VS2010 is pretty useless in this regard, as far as intellisense is concerned. It also inaccurately flags get and set property declarations as bad syntax. Supposedly MS is working on all of this, but in the meantime we wait and look elsewhwere.... :(
Oskar Austegard
2010-09-08 18:04:27
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I'm still a huge fan of HomeSite, even though Adobe discontinued development in May 2009: http://www.adobe.com/products/homesite/.
Sam Dutton
2010-03-05 12:17:39
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Both NetBeans and Eclipse have JavaScript editing support. The latest version of NetBeans actually does a really good job. They are both free and you can use them for other languages as well, this way you have a chance to get to know the IDE and the shortcuts as well.
Molex
2010-03-05 12:30:57