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Ask HN: Which tools you use to develop your webapp?
Which tools like IDE, editor do you use to develop your webapp? Paid ones as well as free ones. I am particularly interested in applications using frameworks like Ruby on Rails, DJango or CakePHP.
- vorador 17y agoEmacs and firebug.
- lec 17y agoDitto
- billturner 17y agoTextmate, Firebug, Chrome & Safari's web inspector, Sequel Pro (for MySQL), Gitx, github.com, and Terminal.
- mantas 17y ago+1. And I use VIM too.
- HendrikR 17y ago+another1 CSSEdit which is great.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoThe same, but with emacs and magit standing in for Textmate and Gitx. The only reason to depart from these tools is if you need a PHP debugger -- Ruby has a perfectly fine command-line debugger, but PHP's debuggers are an incredible pain in the ass by comparison. Most of the pro PHP coders I know use Komodo or NuSphere PHPed for debugging (although only a percentage of them use such IDEs for actual coding). I despise IDEs and use debuggers too rarely to feel like spending the money on those tools; on the rare occasions that I need a PHP debugger I use XDebug with MacGDBp and pray that it doesn't crash. It seems to be working better, based on the last time I tried it, sometime last month.
- generalk 17y agoAll of that, but replace Terminal.app with iTerm.app -- it's 2010 and Apple still hasn't released a terminal emulator that supports 256 colors.
- csuper 17y agoCurrently while developing a Rails app I'm using Notepad++ on my provided XP machine. And normally Pico when SSH'd in, making quick updates.