Brackets vs limetext

Brackets

An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. (by adobe)

Editors

DISCONTINUED

Suggest alternative

Edit details

limetext

Open source API-compatible alternative to the text editor Sublime Text (by limetext)

Software Packages Other Software text-editor Golang Editor

Source Code

limetext.github.io

Suggest alternative

Edit details

Our great sponsors

SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App

WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

Our great sponsors

Brackets		limetext
	Project
38	Mentions	4
33,735	Stars	15,302
-	Growth	-0.1%
1.4	Activity	0.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
JavaScript	Language
MIT License	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Brackets

Posts with mentions or reviews of Brackets. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-15.

This is for myself, and the countless others that can't get live preview in Brackets because they're stupid like me.
1 project | /r/brackets | 30 Apr 2023

Link to the wonderful people who discovered how to fix the stupidest live preview error in all of human history: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/11519
Atom Was Archived Today
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Dec 2022

Heh, just a month ago Adobe Brackets (another Atom clone) did the same https://github.com/adobe/brackets
GitHub is sunsetting Atom
17 projects | /r/programming | 8 Jun 2022
Sunsetting Atom Text Editor
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jun 2022

Oh, that's a good point about the sunsetting. In Brackets's case, Adobe left it active in the hands of the community.
Live Preview in particular is one of the areas I had some fun working on. I worked out a way to do diff/patch to make it quickly and incrementally update the browser[1]
[1]: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Research%3A-HTML-DOM-...
Top 5 text editors for web development in 2022
4 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2022

Brackets may be a free and open-source code editor from the owner of Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and other amazing software providers Adobe. it's a primary target for web development and particularly on web designing because it provides plenty of features for web designers like Quick edit, Quick Docs, Live preview, Autosave, JSLint, Preprocessor support, Open source, Extension, themes, and more. Its software is licensed under the MIT license and it's currently run and maintained by Github's open-source developers. Its GitHub repository is https://github.com/adobe/brackets. it was created with help of Electron JS(JavaScript). it's available in 38 languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript. It supports lots of extensions like Beautify, Autoprefixer, Emmet. Minifier, ToDo, Bracket Gits, Brackets File Icons, Swatcher, and more. it absolutely was initially released on 4 November 2014 around 7 years ago. it's integrated with NODE JS, JavaScript, Adobe PhotoShop, Vizy, and more, and firms like Zenkit, Startlink, MaGIC, WorldGaming, NeoQuant, Core, OpportunityWork, and more are using it for her projects. it's lots of benefits like -
I don't understand how to install brackets, can someone help me?
1 project | /r/brackets | 3 Oct 2021

I think you just need to download this : https://github.com/adobe/brackets/releases/download/release-1.14.2/Brackets.Release.1.14.2.msi
Email development
1 project | /r/brackets | 28 Sep 2021

I don't think there's a fix for this. This problem has many issue entries on github, and it will eventually get worked on at some point. However you could try this troubleshoot guide.
Fix for extension library + The state of Brackets (Sept 16th)
3 projects | /r/brackets | 16 Sep 2021
Update: The state of Brackets (Sept 2nd)
1 project | /r/brackets | 3 Sep 2021

https://brackets.io/ as well as https://registry.brackets.io/ are already back again. Currently there are still some issues with SSL certification but as soon as these are resolved we should expect to get a working extension manager again. After that, the community will be able to transition to the new branch of Brackets (brackets/brackets-cont) most likely by some kind of patch.
Services that you can use instead of Adobe
1 project | /r/coolguides | 21 Aug 2021

limetext

Posts with mentions or reviews of limetext. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-01.