4 Powerful IDEs That Nobody Is Talking About
Tags: webdev, vscode, javascript, php
Published: 2021-01-19 14:12:08

As a developer, you will definitely have a lot of projects to work on, different issues, a lot of files to handle, and you will also have to check everything at once on a daily basis in some situations. It might seem to be complicated and takes a lot of time. Fortunately, there are many tools on the web that make the development process much easier for developers. The most useful tool for these situations is an integrated development environment (IDE) which has a lot of features that you can benefit from if you’re working on projects.

In this article, we will give a list of some extremely useful and powerful IDEs that you probably need to use even though they are not that very popular like VScode and other IDEs. So, let’s get right into it.

**[CodeLobster](http://www.codelobster.com/)**

CodeLobster is a free cross-platform IDE for PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It supports many interface languages and has a lot of features. It is created for learners and also professional developers in order to give them smart tools to make the development process much easier for them.

The great thing about CodeLobster is that it has plug-ins for Drupal CMS, Joomla CMS, Magento CMS, Smarty template engine, Twig template engine, JQuery library, AngularJS, BackboneJS, Laravel, MeteorJS, Phalcon, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Symfony, VueJS, Yii and WordPress. I would definitely recommend this IDE, especially if you work with a little bit of PHP and JavaScript. It also has a lot more features that you can benefit from such as highlighting, auto-complete, a powerful PHP debugger, a SQL manager, and more.


**[CodeShare](https://codeshare.io/)**
CodeShare is an IDE that allows you to share code in real-time with developers and speak to others through a video chat. It’s a good online code editor for interviews, troubleshooting, teaching, and more.
I think it’s mainly used for companies during remote interviews and teams that work together.

**[TextMate](https://macromates.com/)**
TextMate is a customizable macOS text editor with support for a huge list of programming languages. It seems like a simple editor at first, but it actually has quite a bit of functionality crammed into a small package.
It’s a good tool if you have a Mac and need support for all languages. It comes offered as a free download, but you can also decide to upgrade to the premium version.

**[Brackets](http://brackets.io/)**
Brackets is a text editor that comes from the folks at Adobe, in an attempt to offer a more modern, open-source solution for developers creating websites.
It is a free text editor, with some appealing visual tools for previewing your work and allowing frontend developers to examine the changes. Because of its affiliation with Adobe, Brackets has somewhat of integration with Photoshop, so it can take pieces of your PSD file and generate code for your project.


These were just some great tools that need a chance in the developer's community. I have seen people underestimating tools without trying them at all. You can choose any tool from the list above and give it a try if you are interested.