====== Toward a Web Development Environment ======

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You might want to jump directly to [[Komodo Edit for Web Development]].
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===== Candidates for the core =====

==== Komodo Edit ====
Komodo Edit is a FOSS "freemium" subset of Komodo IDE.

=== What I like ===
  * Native font rendering.
  * Decent syntax checking that uses standard tools and full configuration.
  * Usable (but not awesome) tooltips and autocompletion.
    * You can add APIs and links to dirs that should be scanned.
  * Easy to add external tools to make up for shortfalls of what's built in.

=== What I don't like ===
  * Longish startup time.
  * Spellcheck needs to be manually invoked.
  * No code formatting.((Experimenting with external tool: js-beautify))
  * No support for unit testing.((Experimenting with external tool: testem))
  * No built-in change watching for the browser.((guard? grunt?))

==== Netbeans ====
Netbeans has lots of support for HTML5 built in.

=== What I like ===
  * Built in server with auto-update in Chrome or Chromium.
  * Pretty syntax checking icons.((I'd like to know the engine used because it caught one JS warning that Komodo Edit didn't.))
    * Good HTML syntax checking.
  * Good tooltips and autocompletion.
  * Automatic spellcheck!
  * Resource suggestion (e.g., ''<img src="img/'' will bring up a list of files).
  * Good and easy autoformatting.
  * Nifty "wrap in tag" feature.
  * Built-in support for LESS/SASS.

=== Neat but not that awersome (yet?) ===
  * Built-in JavaScript debugger.

=== What I don't like ===
  * Long startup time.
  * Inflexible linting, testing, etc.
  * Adding "external tools" is not built in. Available plugins for this are either buggy or don't work.
  * Oh-so-painful Swing font rendering on Linux.

==== Aptana ====
Aptana is based on the Eclipse IDE. Buggy. Long startup time. Probably has awesome tooltips and autocompletion, but I didn't get that far.

==== JetBrains ====
Didn't try because of the oh-so-painful Swing font rendering on Linux.

==== Geany, Gedit, etc. ====
Too hard to add tooltips, etc.

===== Desired Features =====
==== Unit test runner ====
Should be automatic.
  * JS Testrunner
  * Testem

==== Linting ====
Ideally automatic.

=== JavaScript ===
  * JSHint
  * JSLint

=== CSS ===
  * ?

=== HTML ===
  * tidy?

==== Code formatting ====
  * js-beautify does JS, CSS, and HTML

==== CSS compiler ====
We want to be able to compile LESS, SASS, or whatever, and it should probably be automatic.
  * ?

==== Minification ====
Applied at deploy time?
  * ?