The 5 Best Code Editors For Web Development

Ann Adaya
For Self-Taught Developers
7 min readMar 24, 2020

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This first decision will define your productivity and effectiveness as you code.

Before you even start learning Web Development, one must choose and download the code editor of your choice.

This part right here is crucial — your journey, your learning curve is at stake. This will be the tool that you will be using as you start to write your code, and there are various code editors for you to choose from.

For those who have started coding 10+ years ago, the most used platform was Notepad++, and other code editors followed after were TextWrangler, BBEdit, Coda, Sublime Text, VSCode, TextMate, Atom, UltraEdit, Vim, Brackets and CoffeeCup HTML Editor.

In Modern Technology, the choices have been narrowed down into few namely, Sublime Text, Atom, VSCode, Vim, Brackets.

As you study along, you will find different teachers or instructors who preferred to use different text editor, it doesn’t matter if you follow them and use the same editor, or choose your own, what matters is you are comfortable with your chosen text editor. Choose whatever makes you more productive because it will help you become a better programmer.

So, choose wisely.

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Ann Adaya
For Self-Taught Developers

Software Developer, Founder/Owner: For Self-Taught Developers + Developer's Cheatsheet: https://www.developercs.com/