I was recently talking to Adam Lehman, product manager for Brackets, about ways I could potentially help contribute to the product, perhaps by writing an extension or two. I wanted to learn how to write a Brackets extension, but I also wanted my efforts to go into something people would find useful, something of real value. It turns out, my timing was impeccable. more
Download Sprint 24: http://download.brackets.io
Brackets 24 (codenamed “Jack Bauer”) is posted and ready for download. Quite possibly the biggest Brackets release to date, this build is full of new features and capabilities. We’ve added new visual tools, community-powered documentation for CSS, advanced JavaScript code intelligence and significant UX improvements.
The Brackets xUnit extension was created to simplify the process of creating and developing Javascript unit tests. xUnit currently supports the unit test frameworks Jasmine, Qunit, and YUITest. Tests written in these frameworks can be run directly from the Brackets interface. The extension can also generate skeleton unit tests for Jasmine, Qunit, or YUITest by parsing the current file and creating a new test file with test cases for each method.
Markdown is a lightweight markup language that allows you to create HTML using simple symbols. For example, doing *beer* creates an italic-styled HTML wrapper for the word. Markdown is a great way to accept user-generated content on a site without having to worry about the complexities of HTML.
Every year Adobe puts on a giant conference called MAX in support of creative professionals. This year, Adobe has invited the Brackets community to get involved and we couldn’t be more excited. We have several sessions and activities planned that involve Brackets, so we hope to see you there. If you are still on the fence about attending MAX, maybe some Brackets-open-source-awesomeness will convince you.
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Download Sprint 23: http://download.brackets.io
Brackets 23 includes a major UI update, new Live Development features and several enhancements to the core code editor. We continued to work on extension management (behind the scenes) and pulled in several community contributions. All-in-all, a pretty solid release we think you’ll enjoy.
[A guest post from the LCVM team.] Howdy everyone! The LCVM team is a group of engineers at Adobe with expertise in designing languages, compilers and virtual machines. We’ve been closely following the Brackets project and were quite interested to discover Sprint 21 introduced JavaScript code hinting. This implementation does a good job of proposing code completions by tracking the identifiers and members in each scope. These hints can make coding more productive once a code base is established and the developer is reasonably familiar with the source.
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Ever since I first used TextMate several years ago, I’ve been hooked on “Quick Open” (the feature that lets you jump to any file in your project with just a few keystrokes). I have worked on Brackets’ version of this feature and I thought I’d take advantage of Brackets being open source to talk about how it works.
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Download Sprint 22: http://download.brackets.io
Our double-deuce build is now live and ready for download. This release contains a long awaited feature (word wrap) and introduces a new way to install extensions via a url. We also improved the robustness and reliability of Live Development to ensure it works as you expect it to. This release has also been translated to simplified Chinese (zh-CN).
Download Sprint 21: http://download.brackets.io
The Brackets sprint 21 build is now available for download. This release includes new JavaScript code hinting; our first step towards next generation JavaScript code intelligence. Under the hood, Brackets now includes Node.JS, a robust and capable server that is being used to power Live Development.