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Products => Computers => Programming => Topic started by: KungFuJosh on November 23, 2020, 07:19:41 pm

Title: Project Based Coding Editor with FTP (Dreamweaver Alternatives?)
Post by: KungFuJosh on November 23, 2020, 07:19:41 pm
Hi,

I'm looking for a Dreamweaver alternative. I don't care at all about the visual editor. What I need is:


Compatibility on both Windows and Mac would be nice, but options for both are also fine.

I haven't found anything great. Just text editors with some form of FTP support, but nothing great for maintaining everything based on projects.

Thanks,
Josh
Title: Re: Project Based Coding Editor with FTP (Dreamweaver Alternatives?)
Post by: bd139 on November 23, 2020, 07:59:07 pm
Try VSCode: https://code.visualstudio.com/

There are numerous FTP plugins for it. Works on Mac and Windows. Has built in project support etc and you can keep meta-info like ftp servers in it.
Title: Re: Project Based Coding Editor with FTP (Dreamweaver Alternatives?)
Post by: kripton2035 on November 23, 2020, 10:15:17 pm
SublimeText is nice too for that.
Title: Re: Project Based Coding Editor with FTP (Dreamweaver Alternatives?)
Post by: KungFuJosh on November 23, 2020, 10:36:07 pm
Quote from: bd139 on November 23, 2020, 07:59:07 pm
Try VSCode: https://code.visualstudio.com/

There are numerous FTP plugins for it. Works on Mac and Windows. Has built in project support etc and you can keep meta-info like ftp servers in it.

Thanks! That looks like it's evolved a lot since the last time I looked at it. I'm gonna try it out.


Quote from: kripton2035 on November 23, 2020, 10:15:17 pm
SublimeText is nice too for that.

That editor looks nice, but it doesn't appear to have any FTP support yet?
Title: Re: Project Based Coding Editor with FTP (Dreamweaver Alternatives?)
Post by: PlainName on November 24, 2020, 02:30:46 am
Slickedit (https://www.slickedit.com/products/slickedit/cool-features) should cover your requirements. Been around for quite a long time (I moved to it in 2005 after falling for Underware's Brief and then spending nearly a decade trying to find a perfect replacement when that went under), so they have a clue as to what they're doing. Product support is very good indeed. I don't use FTP myself but there is good support for it.

'Tain't free, though. OTOH, it's one of the few remaining apps I cough for extending maintenance every year without thinking about it. I'd pay that fee just for the preview window, and that's a minor feature :)
Title: Re: Project Based Coding Editor with FTP (Dreamweaver Alternatives?)
Post by: KungFuJosh on December 27, 2020, 06:03:41 pm
It looks like Visual Studio Code is the best option presented. With the help of a few plugins (Project Dashboard, SFTP, and a few others) it does everything I want the best, and doesn't look like it's from 1992. All the other options still needed plugins to meet all the needs (if they even could), and still did it very clunkily. I wish some company would just copy the feature set from Dreamweaver and make life simple. lol