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Alternative to Coda 2

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diegie

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Nov 22, 2014
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Hi guys, girls,

I'm a webdeveloper myself and using Coda 2 at the moment.
But from time to time everybody needs a change :)

What app do you guys use to develop your websites?

Only thing that I really want in a new app is the possibility to upload my changed files directly from the app to the FTP-server (like in Coda 2).

I know there are sites that sum up the alternatives of Coda, but maybe you guys have a secret app that's not on that list yet ;)
 
I know and have to admit that Coda is a pretty good app.
But I'm just exploring if they are other apps that offer almost the same...

Nothing wrong with "looking around", not? :)
 
I think Coda 2 is very good; it is also nice to have Diet Coda on my iPad. I also use Word Press for some sites. And, I still use Dreamweaver and other Adobe CC apps plus others.
 
Coda2 is the best product I've tested. I love that I can push updates directly to the staging site for the client. I also love the integrated GIT source control!

<sarcastic-thought>If only Panic would send me a $5 Starbucks card each time I bragged about them</sarcastic-thought>
 
I could never get into Coda myself. Netbeans, Aptana Studio and PHP Storm are all good. I still use Dreamweaver but mostly because some of the people I work with use the templates in it.
 
The best tool is the one you know.

However… I would recommend taking a look at WebStorm if you want a powerful IDE.
 
I would definitely recommend Atom.io.

My 'toolkit' consists of Atom, Brackets, Photoshop, Sequel Pro and Git.

If you don't use Git already for version control, start.
 
I switched from using Dreamweaver to Coda, love the switch and have not looked back. If you want to go real basic, you can always use TextEdit ;).
 
So I guess Espresso is defunct?

I've used Coda 2 a lot, but Espresso's CSS editor was really nice.

Both of the applications have profound UI problems, though. Coda 2's are just baffling; I don't know why Panic allows them to persist.

Probably the most annoying one is the way that you specify a local root directory for your project, and then Coda doesn't honor it. You open your "site," and Coda doesn't automatically navigate the file browser to the root directory you specified for it. The browser just sits there on whatever directory it was pointing at last.

This can be disastrous if you have multiple copies or versions of the project (or even similar ones) on your file system; you can work for hours on the wrong one, or overwrite things unintentionally.

Also, Coda's split editors are bizarrely dysfunctional.

And there's no way to export project files for use on multiple systems, and the iCloud syncing never worked right.

And I just found that it doesn't alert you to updates. Version 2.5 is out, but 2.0 doesn't even have a way to check for updates, let alone alert you automatically.

That's all I can remember at the moment. I'm curious about WebStorm and going to give it a try.
 
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MobiusStrip said:
So I guess Espresso is defunct?
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Espresso quietly started allowing open downloads for the beta of version 3 recently, actually. I'd never have known if I hadn't checked.

I discovered Brackets for editing all code languages within a single web "project," and that replaced Espresso for me. But I still return to Espresso for the quick and awesome server-syncing it does (to answer diegie from like a year ago). ^ _ ^

And since Jade / Stylus / CoffeeScript are my HTML / CSS / JavaScript of choice, there's no not using CodeKit for me anymore.
 
diegie said:
Hi guys, girls,

I'm a webdeveloper myself and using Coda 2 at the moment.
But from time to time everybody needs a change :)

What app do you guys use to develop your websites?

Only thing that I really want in a new app is the possibility to upload my changed files directly from the app to the FTP-server (like in Coda 2).

I know there are sites that sum up the alternatives of Coda, but maybe you guys have a secret app that's not on that list yet ;)
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I own Coda 2 but I often use Visual Code from Microsoft. It's free and powerful. When you edit colours in CSS files, it will show a colour preview like Coda. You can, unlike Coda, debug PHP web site (via a free extension). There is also support for Docker files and it's multi-platform. FTP is also available through a plugin if required.

As a companion app for both, I use CodeKit. It manages easily the add-ons I use on my php projects.
 
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slayerizer said:
I own Coda 2 but I often use Visual Code from Microsoft. It's free and powerful. When you edit colours in CSS files, it will show a colour preview like Coda. You can, unlike Coda, debug PHP web site (via a free extension). There is also support for Docker files and it's multi-platform. FTP is also available through a plugin if required.

As a companion app for both, I use CodeKit. It manages easily the add-ons I use on my php projects.
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Oh yeah Visual Code is actually pretty good! It has awesome typescript and jsdoc integration and lots of convenience features. I didn't know it has a plugin to manage Docker!
 
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