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What IDE do you use for your JavaScript/AJAX development?

4 points| circuitbreaker | 15 years ago

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kls|15 years ago

Netbeans has very good JavaScript support and in browser JavaScript debugging. It is the only one I know of so far that does in-browser debugging. VS and IE do but IE's debugger is primitive. Netbeans allows you to debug and trace through the entire stack in one location. I went through a lot of them Aptana, Eclipse, et. al. and found that Netbeans provided the best JavaScript development tools in my opinion.

bdfh42|15 years ago

Where applicable, I use MS Visual Studio - applies "intellisense" to your JavaScript code and supports "step though" code debugging with access to variable values.

dagw|15 years ago

JetBrains WebStorm. Basically a stripped down version of IntelliJ IDEA for javascript. Moved to it from Aptana and have never looked back.

jcfrei|15 years ago

VIM as well. Since you're advised to keep everything in one file, handling 5000+ lines of code requires a snappy editor.

Hovertruck|15 years ago

Working on a 5000+ line file sucks. It's much better to have multiple files and serve a concatenated + minified version to the browser