These are all areas where Coda needs to improve *dramatically*, if it wants to try and continue to deliver on its promise of ‘single-window web development’ in the modern age. Lastly, deployment to staging and production servers can be handled by sophisticated tools like capistrano, or even git-ftp, which at the very least integrates directly with your git repository and can upload/update just the required changes (as per your commit history, not relying on flawed file date/size comparisons). Tools like CodeKit and Grunt also setup local servers in your computer, so you can preview your responsive site in several devices at once, as you develop. You will also need to use browser developer tools – such as the ones available in Safari and Chrome – to test your website’s performance, and troubleshoot resource access and usage. The result is, that for a long time, Coda has not been able to give developers the ‘single-window web development’ dream it promised.ĭoing modern web development with Coda means also having several other tools, such as: Grunt or CodeKit (for checking, compiling, concatenating and minifying pre- and post-processor language files), git or Tower (for adequate git support with remote repository access to GitHub/Gitlab), and Dash (for readily accessible documentation on all modern libraries and frameworks). And there are a multitude of frontend frameworks that give the developer a great starting point, and save them from having to ‘reinvent the wheel’ on every project: Bootstrap, Foundation, UIKit, Semantic UI, etc.
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Developers no longer use ‘vanilla’ HTML/CSS/JS, preferring higher-level languages and tools that add many more features, and make code simpler and more maintainable: HAML, PUG, LESS, SASS, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.
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Nowadays, even if you’re a lone developer working on your mother’s website, you’d be crazy not to be using version control – and GIT has won the war, with a multitude of feature-full, cloud-based services offering free public and private repository hosting (such as GitHub and Gitlab). That was the programming workflow for which Coda was built. If you were a *very* advanced developer you might have been playing around with php frameworks, or even ruby on rails, and might even be using SVN to version-control your work. For more complex projects, you might setup a MySQL database. If you forgot your syntax, you’d google it, or reach for a printed manual. The usual process then involved coding HTML/CSS/JS by hand, and uploading files to your staging server via ftp. The process and technologies involved in developing websites has changed quite a lot since Coda 1.0 came out. It’s definitely my favorite Panic product, and looking forward to it’s next stellar release! Hoping to see / hear some updates soon though on Coda.
Again, in their defense, Panic has been neck-deep in other endeavors lately, and attentions have been diverted a bit. There’s been a bit of a gap in major releases in Coda, and I’m hoping to get back onto a better release cycle going forward. I see the advances that some of these other IDE’s have been making (love multiple cursors in Sublime, and the rich extension eco-system of atom/brackets…), there’s a tinge of jealousy. I’ve been using it since it’s original release along with many other Panic products. With that said, I’m just an over-zealous Coda fan. I would whole-heartedly recommend Coda, but there’s a 14 day free-trial that you can test out so you’re not taking my word for it. Coda is a great IDEO, and I still haven’t found one that I like as an alternative after trying brackets, Atom, Sublime and a bunch of others. I don’t normally see the Panic fold reply in the blog. Don’t let the lack of response dissuade you from a purchase.
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