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Differences between web development environment and a text editor?
- Thread starter Adney
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zozoreview
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The biggest differences to me are a visual debugger and tools to visualize Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). The idea is that once you're in an IDE you shouldn't have to leave it for all work related to that project.
In a text editor, the only goal is to have an environment where you can edit your code. You will have to leave the editor to run/debug code, visualize UIs, etc.
TextMate is a text editor (despite it's excellent set of bundles).
Xcode is an Integrated Development Environment (for OS X).
In a text editor, the only goal is to have an environment where you can edit your code. You will have to leave the editor to run/debug code, visualize UIs, etc.
TextMate is a text editor (despite it's excellent set of bundles).
Xcode is an Integrated Development Environment (for OS X).
Web development environment often termed IDE is a program that often will let you code, see results, execute scripts, works with a local server and more. Dreamweaver and Netbeans are examples of an IDE. Text editor is good for writing up straight code but not possible to create a complete site that can be thoroughly tested out as a whole. Notepad ++ and Sublime text are a couple of examples.
A text editor, in a strict way, will only help you with anything regarding your writing process; from selecting, copy, paste, search and replace, syntax highlight, etc. An IDE will typically integrate functions that you are related to programming itself, like debugging, compiling, context language helpers