Ask HN: Good Alternatives to VS Code? I use VS code as my main code editor and it seem to be the most popular in my bubble. I am generally happy with with but curious if there are better alternatives that would offer a more productive experience. Curious in particular about WebStorm and Nova. Any code editors that you are in particular satisfied with? I do my dev work on a Mac, mainly web development. I generally like to keep my code editor config maintenance minimal. |
Could you share some of your favorite features in WebStorm? Curious what would the pitch be if you would recommend it to a colleague.
2. I like being able to set different run configurations when working on a project, for example, if I have an index.js in a client folder and one in a host folder, I can set up an easy way to start them without having to drop to the cli (as much as I love the command line, sometimes I'm just in flow and don't want to bother tracking various tabs).
3. Being familiar with other JB products, it's easy to transfer knowledge from one to the other.
4. Really like the code maintenance capabilities and refactoring... identifying repeated code, easy reformatting, super simple renaming of things.
5. Excellent integration with various version control systems.
6. Recently I was working on a project that required a lot of work with a database and it was nice being able to work with it directly in the IDE without having to jump out of it.
These are just off the top of my head. I would definitely suggest looking at the user manual.
To me it just feels solid... I know that is very opinion based and maybe a bit abstract.
But it has a steep learning curve. It might not be the thing you're looking for as it is very different (but not less) than VS code.
Vim if you want to grow a beard (just kidding). It's quite powerful and can be turned into a complete IDE.
As a teenager, I used Geany on Linux, it was quite nice and the first editor I used with an integrated terminal.
j/k
Not really though.