Which IDE/Editor should I use for Full-Stack Development — A Personal Developer Journey
tl;dr: You can’t go wrong with PhpStorm/WebStorm/VsCode on the Desktop. As for the server, I use vim!
Disclaimer: all of the editors I cover in this articles are used by me personally over the years. They get the job done, and I do not have affiliate links for them (yet)!
Whether you are a seasoned developer, or someone just starting out on learning about computer scripting, you will need to use at least one App/Program to compose programs. Read on to see how I got to where I am today (and reminisce too if you also took the same journey!)
[-1995) NotePad — A Humble Beginning (I was 10)
My father brought home the first family computer when I was in the third grade, and connected it to the internet shortly after. In Taiwan, pirated software is a big underground industry, there are many street vendors who sell those CDs full of virus and Dos Games near Taiwan’s BestBuy. Those were golden days when we scramble to install pirated copies of King’s Quest and other Sierra games and try to get past the game without understanding English.
In the same year, windows 95 was released, and it looked like this:
