Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Hands-on with 10 JavaScript editors and IDEs

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Sep 5, 20142 mins

Need a JavaScript tool for your dev shop? InfoWorld takes an in-depth, first-person look at 10 JavaScript tools ready for adoption

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JavaScript has taken over the Web, and it’s creeping onto mobile apps and back-end services too. Programmers would be well-advised to get in on the JavaScript wave, and with today’s surplus of editors and IDEs, they have no excuse to pass up the opportunity.

On the other hand, the sheer number of JavaScript programming tools may befuddle developers and companies. Which editor or IDE should you pick? It all depends on your needs, preferences, and pocketbook.

In this downloadable PDF, InfoWorld puts 10 JavaScript editors and IDEs, ranging from Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 to Netbeans to Komodo Edit and more, from a full-featured integrated development environment to code editors-plus. Most run on Windows, iOS, and Linux, to keep the options open. With such a diverse and capable roster of tools, dev shops can surely find the best addition for their JavaScript toolkit.

Discover which JavaScript tool best fits your shop. InfoWorld has sample code and screenshots to show you how each tool works, as well as comparison tables to see how they measure up side by side. Your search for the best JavaScript tool begins and ends with InfoWorld’s exhaustive review, “10 JavaScript editors and IDEs.”

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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