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Essential web-dev tools, tips and sites for Mac
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Seems like it's been a while since this was updated. Here are my go-to tools as an Interactive Developer:
- Coda - My one-and-only IDE for all of my development needs
- Transmit - File Transfer Tool
- CodeKit - SCSS Compiler
- MAMP - Local Apache/MySQL/PHP stack environment
- Tower - Git client
- Apple Remote Desktop - For remoting into my colocated OS X Server
If you are looking for essential tools for Mac, then see the below-mentioned tools which are important for Mac:
Reveal (Reveal brings powerful runtime view debugging to iOS developers.)
Cellist (Cellist has a HTTP proxy running on your Mac.)
Paw (Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful)
Reveal (Reveal brings powerful runtime view debugging to iOS developers.)
Cellist (Cellist has a HTTP proxy running on your Mac.)
Paw (Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful)
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Surprised no one has mentioned Sublime Text yet! Love this text editor, and tons of plugins and integration to make things easier: http://www.sublimetext.com/
Used to use Aptana, but now just sublime/terminal/chrome gets the job done.
Also have used Atom which is also handy: https://atom.io/
Regexr to test regular expressions: http://www.regexr.com/
Paletton for color scheming: http://paletton.com/
Or Coolers to get some color scheme inspiration: http://coolors.co/
Mockingbird for wireframes: https://gomockingbird.com
Used to use Aptana, but now just sublime/terminal/chrome gets the job done.
Also have used Atom which is also handy: https://atom.io/
Regexr to test regular expressions: http://www.regexr.com/
Paletton for color scheming: http://paletton.com/
Or Coolers to get some color scheme inspiration: http://coolors.co/
Mockingbird for wireframes: https://gomockingbird.com
I'll second you for Transmit, CodeKit, and MAMP Pro. They are on my essentials list as well.
BBEdit, Brackets, Inkscape, and Photoshop Elements round out my necessities. I've been close to moving to Coda a few times and may eventually. Thanks for the Tower reference. I'm checking it out now in case I ever need a more full-featured client than the free GitHub Desktop. I have no problem purchasing quality products for the low prices that are charged nowadays (e.g. Transmit, CodeKit, MAMP Pro are amazing at their current prices).
Can't beat Sublime for the price (free) lol
I've stopped using it when I discovered JetBrains suite of IDE's though. Perfect for Java, Python, and they have something for web dev called Web Storm, which I'm sure is great as well
I recently took a week-long class on web development that was based around Visual Studio for Windows.
Since I'm a Mac user, I'm wondering what IDE for Mac is best for web development (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). I have heard of Coda obviously, but I know some others like Espresso and Brackets exist as well.
I know I can code in BBEdit, but there is something nice about working with a solution like Visual Studio that gathers everything into one place....
PS - I know Visual Studio for Mac exists, but I figure it can't be the best thing out there for Mac....
Since I'm a Mac user, I'm wondering what IDE for Mac is best for web development (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). I have heard of Coda obviously, but I know some others like Espresso and Brackets exist as well.
I know I can code in BBEdit, but there is something nice about working with a solution like Visual Studio that gathers everything into one place....
PS - I know Visual Studio for Mac exists, but I figure it can't be the best thing out there for Mac....
Have you taken a look at Visual Studio Code? Wholly different from the "complete" VS, but fulfils all my coding needs.
I know this is old and you’ve probably found your solution (VSC is a great editor)
If you need an IDE for more heavyweight stuff, I can suggest WebStorm from jetbrains. It does a lot more than VSCout of the box. It’s basically a streamlined version of IDEA for the web.
I am searching for a html wysiwyg-editor that runs on iPadOS. I can find lots of code-editors, but until now not one that works without me having to type actual html-codes. Does it exist?
We think iPadOS has so much potential for web development, especially now iPadOS has external monitor support. Did you manage to find an app for iPad?
Good idea! My current set-up for web-related development on my Mac mini:
- GNU Emacs (latest version) - My one-and-only IDE for all of my development needs
(these days, I usually design my layouts manually, most automatisms I tried in the past had annoying side-effects which made life harder instead of easier for me) - Fossil - Version control system
- Affinity Designer - For creating icons (if required, which is rarely the case)
- iTerm2 - ssh, scp, compilation etc. (I could probably do that from inside Emacs, but old habits die hard.)
nice list had not seen danvine in years forgot that even existed. bookmarking that for sure.
if you're working locally a lot on mac, i’d also throw in httpie — super clean alternative to curl for testing APIs from terminal. also CodeKit used to be my go-to for quick local compiles (sass, less, etc.), still handy if you don’t want to get too deep into config.
anyone still using Transmit for FTP or has something better now?
Definitely still using Transmit. Not for deployment (git), but sometimes I do need to upload or check additional files and folders. But open to alternative suggestions!
Ah good to know! i stuck with Transmit out of habit honestly lol. Thinking of checking out forklift just to see if it’s any faster. If you try something new do share!