Brackets Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score10 out of 10

33 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

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Pros

Live Preview Feature: Many users have found the Live Preview feature extremely helpful, as it has allowed them to make real-time adjustments to their CSS and instantly see the effects on the page they are coding. This feature has been praised for its convenience and efficiency in streamlining the coding process.

File Tree Tool: The recently added file tree feature has been widely praised as a time-saving tool by users. They appreciate being able to drag and drop files without needing to minimize the program, which enhances productivity and makes organizing files much easier.

Extensibility: Users have consistently mentioned that one of their favorite features of Brackets is its ability to update the core program with extensions. These extensions range from simple ones like themes to more advanced ones that offer assistance in coding tasks such as generating Lorem Ipsum text. The availability of these extensions has greatly enhanced users' experience with Brackets, making it a versatile tool for various coding needs.

Brackets Reviews

3 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesMarketing & Advertising3

No frills, no fuss, BUT simple and effective

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 2, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Brackets to make changes to, and edit, our HTML, CSS, JS and PHP files. Using the "edit" function in our FTP application opens the relevant file in Brackets directly from the web server (or local server). Once our changes are done, the save command in Brackets sends the updated version back to our FTP server and the file is uploaded and ready live on the web. Brackets speeds up our overall editing process tremendously.

Pros

Edit code directly
Color-code code snippets for an easy overview
Clean interface for distraction-free editing
Lightweight application with fast loading speeds

Cons

Showing hints for potential coding or syntax errors
Having descriptions for the working files list (especially when working on multiple index.php files at once)
Easier preference settings

Likelihood to Recommend

We use Brackets exclusively to make coding changes on our websites, specifically changes to PHP & HTML files, as well as CSS and HTACCESS files. We use FileZilla as our FTP application and have set the edit functionality to open the selected file directly in Brackets. When we've located the specific file that needs editing, it's as simple as a right-click, then "edit." The file opens in Brackets, we make our changes, select save, and the updated file is re-uploaded directly to the server. Depending on the settings in FileZilla, we have an additional prompt confirming that we are overwriting the current file, with the updated version.

Olaf Schaum

Founder in Marketing at LiveSociety (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

HTML should go into Brackets

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 5, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Brackets is the workhorse for developing HTML and CSS projects. There is a lot of overlap in the world of text editors, and we actually use several, as they are useful for different things. The niche Brackets fills, it fills nicely, with a few specific conveniences. The specific features that make it such a time-saver are the image hover info and the live updating browser view.

Pros

Image hover info. If you hover your mouse over an image link in the code, you get specific file information that is useful for the HTML, image size and dimensions, etc. ...as well as a preview.
Live browser preview. You can open your working files in a browser and all saved changes are automatically updated. It doesn't seem like a big deal to go over to the browser and refresh, but once you get used to it, it is a pain when missing in other browsers.
Brackets is still fairly small in the text editor arena, but there is already a rich ecosystem of plugins and customizations.
It is actually fairly easy to create your own custom themes.
Multiple cursors!! It is amazing to be able to insert multiple cursors and type the same thing in multiple places.

Cons

As it is a javascript based program it can have some performance issues, especially with larger files (too large and it can't even open them).
Themes are limited to the editor area, but it would be nice to be able to customize the file-tree and gutter areas.
And the smallest quibble of all, make the open files area resizable. It's a little annoying to have to scroll up and down when you have plenty of screen space to see all the open files.

Likelihood to Recommend

Brackets can handle most text editing problems, at least if you have a file small enough that it opens. But with so many free and open-source editors out there, it is easy to have multiple tools that fit specific niches. If you are editing HTML and CSS, get Brackets.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (Marketing and Advertising company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

A fast, lightweight code editor

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 29, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Brackets for quick code editing. It’s fast and works very well for what it’s intended to do, which is to write and edit code. It's my ‘go-to’ for any quick coding and editing.

Pros

Code-writing.
Code-editing.
General and advanced coding.

Cons

It doesn’t allow you to view multiple browsers, only Google Chrome.
The shortcuts aren’t robust.
Some ‘suggestions’ aren’t robust.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suited for quick editing. Not recommended for multiple browser testing. It only works with Google Chrome.

Verified User

Director in Marketing (Marketing and Advertising company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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HTML should go into Brackets

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 5, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Image hover info. If you hover your mouse over an image link in the code, you get specific file information that is useful for the HTML, image size and dimensions, etc. ...as well as a preview.
Live browser preview. You can open your working files in a browser and all saved changes are automatically updated. It doesn't seem like a big deal to go over to the browser and refresh, but once you get used to it, it is a pain when missing in other browsers.
Brackets is still fairly small in the text editor arena, but there is already a rich ecosystem of plugins and customizations.
It is actually fairly easy to create your own custom themes.
Multiple cursors!! It is amazing to be able to insert multiple cursors and type the same thing in multiple places.

Cons

As it is a javascript based program it can have some performance issues, especially with larger files (too large and it can't even open them).
Themes are limited to the editor area, but it would be nice to be able to customize the file-tree and gutter areas.
And the smallest quibble of all, make the open files area resizable. It's a little annoying to have to scroll up and down when you have plenty of screen space to see all the open files.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (Marketing and Advertising company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience