Friday, May 18, 2007

Aptana JavaScript Editor

I love good IDE's.


One of the reason's I love eclipse is because it is so versatile. You can add any type of addin to Eclipse, and there are many out there. Today I wish to talk a little about APTANA IDE.





The Aptana is an IDE for Javascript (AJAX anyone?) with an excellent bonus.
It allows you to use code-Assist, or as Microsoft users call it "intellisense". You can add your own libraries to the code assist area, and it considers them part of the framework.

It works with CSS, HTML, JS, RUBY, RHTML, RAILS.


It's pretty easy to use with Microsoft's excellent Ajax Framework (formerly known as atlas).
It's still not as god as microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 IDE. check out the free version
Microsoft Web Developer Express

Since VS2005 and the free version as well, do not have good javascript support, i rally my work around both IDE's leaving the hardcore JS to APTANA and the debugging and design to the VS2005.

They work well together, and do not step on each others toes.

give them a try.

1 comment:

Mickey Perstein said...

Also checkout the new Microsoft Visual Studio Beta codenamed "Orcas", It's a long download but it's easier on the eyes faster than vs2005, and (currently) free. It has alot of new cool editions like split html/designer views, better css support and handy js intellisense in more places.

Mick