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Javascript IDE ???

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:42 am
by christian_phpbeginner
Hallo,

I am searching for a great Javascript IDE. And have found 2 of them, but I dunno if they are great as spoken on their website. Please give comments or suggestions on these IDE...And if you know other great Javascript IDE, would you kindly tell me ?

IDE I have found:
  • 1st Javascript Editor
    JSide
Thank you,
Chris

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:22 am
by Shendemiar
I find javascript the hardest language of them all. It dont give you any feedback. Using

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if(debug) alert('blaah=' + blaah);
is not very handy. Im too in need for some jscript help. Any good addons to IE... i need to use IE in this project because of the nice modal windows it has :roll:

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:26 am
by Shendemiar

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:46 am
by Chris Corbyn
May I suggest you look into Unit Testing with JSUnit and JSMock? :) It's a world apart from having an idea but you do finish up with a nice set of tests to run in their spiffy testing suite.

Somebody did post a link to a JS IDE based around Eclipse recently. If you do a quick search you'll find it ;)

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:57 am
by daedalus__
Aptana. It's great.

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:13 pm
by wtf
I'd also add firebugextension for FireFox.

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:27 pm
by Weirdan
on a related topic: do you know any good js debuggers for IE?

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:23 pm
by wtf
I've heard of this one but haven't used it. I'm not sure if IE7 is required or not

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:32 am
by Weirdan
I've heard of this one but haven't used it.
Unfortunately, it's not a debugger.

Hi ya all ! Thanks for the responses so far

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:58 am
by christian_phpbeginner
Thanks for the great responses so far.

Well, after a couple of days playing around with 1st Javascript Editor...I decided to use TEXTPAD again.

It's true, as I thought before. They talked too much nice things about the editor and more of marketing than quality of the products. Try to download one and you'll see !

On their website, they said: 1st Javascript Editor can however detect errors in Javascript which is totally crap ! It can't even detect this simple but stressing error:

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var myArray = new Array;
I coded with the editor....then I clicked on the JAVASCRIPT ERROR CHECKER button in the application, and it said: "THERE ARE NO JAVASCRIPT ERROR"....hell, good bye 1st Javascript Editor....and thanks for the DEMO Product, it just SAVED my MONEY !...

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:38 am
by volka
Weirdan wrote:
I've heard of this one but haven't used it.
Unfortunately, it's not a debugger.
But the Script Debugger for Windows NT 4.0 and Later is ;)

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:23 am
by Weirdan
But the Script Debugger for Windows NT 4.0 and Later is
Yeah, it is. And I was aware of its existance. That's the reason I asked about decent debuggers.

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:07 am
by volka
hm, what's wrong with it?
I "only" have the visual studio debugger but I thought the free script debugger was quite similar...

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:42 am
by wtf

Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:01 am
by christian_phpbeginner
Daedalus- wrote:Aptana. It's great.
Yes, it's ! I have downloaded Aptana after you told me about it. Thanks, Daedalus !