Integrated Development Environments
Submitted by criecke on Sat, 05/12/2007 - 14:33.
At the high end of the spectrum, Integrated Development Environments, or IDEs support a wide range of web development activity, including editing JavaScript and HTML files, deploying code to servers, and integration with existing features like source control. In addition, some include runtime tools and browser integration to assist in debugging.
Cross-Platform, Eclipse-Based
- Aptana - Extremely strong JavaScript support, good support for many common server-side languages, and integration for Dojo.
- MyEclipse - MyEclipse Professional contains a JavaScript editor and debugger. The debugger can set breakpoints, inspect variables, and single step within its own Web 2.0 Browser, based on Mozilla/Firefox.
- ATF - The Ajax Tools Framework contains similar tools as MyEclipse, and adds AJAX toolkit "personalities". These are essentially snippets for the common idioms for a toolkit. The Dojo personality is included, but is not yet updated for 0.9.
- Adobe JSEclipse, formerly a product of Interakt, is a free JavaScript editor. Like ATF, it includes code completion idioms for Dojo, but does not include the debugger.
Windows
- Visual Studio .NET bundles the JavaScript editor and debugger with the other languages. This is especially useful when writing data services in ASP.NET and client-side scripts with Dojo.
- Visual Web Developer Express is a free, scaled down version of the web portion of Visual Studio. JavaScript editing and debugging is supported.
- Microsoft Script DebuggerAn extremely scaled-down and outdated debugger, but familiar to many.
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