Aptana is a slick looking JavaScript IDE that rivals larger IDE's like Visual Studio. Aptana includes support for AJAX, and has an easy to use interface to help with your web design tasks. Included is an outline view, file and project tabs for quick browsing of your file system. There is a decent help system that helps you get setup in Aptana coding the way that works best for you. The splash or home screen does a good job of explaining many aspects of the system and how to use it right off the bat. My favorite feature is the integrated JavaScript reference to help you learn more as you code, or simply make looking up the name of a function or other syntax very easy.
Tags: aptana, browsertips, coding, freeware, IDE, javascript, programming, WEB2.0
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Subscribe to commentsAlex HillmanJul 26th 2006 6:59PM
this is AWESOME. Ive been looking for a good javascript IDE forever, and everything else ive tried sucks. this is great out of the box. plus, its cross platform. PLUS its free. PLUS ITS WELL SUPPORTED! THANKS!
BrentJul 27th 2006 12:29PM
It appears as though Aptana is just piggy backing on the Eclipse IDE platform ( http://www.eclipse.org/ ). Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The framework Eclipse provides is a little... strange, and the end-user documentation for the base IDE could use a lot of work (I've still yet to figure out what the difference between a 'Perspective' and a 'View' are; and toolbar customization is... largely a mess), but I've been using Eclipse+PHPEclipse ( http://phpeclipse.de/ ) for a while and more recently Eclipse+Zend's own PHP-IDE ( http://www.zend.com/phpide/ ). They both work far better than the old standard-text-editors I was using before this.
The best part of the Eclipse platform is that you can add on components and they all work fairly seamlessly together. So you can easily add Subversion support just by adding the Subclipse project, and now your Javascript IDE, or PHP IDE, has subversion support.
You should also be able to seamlessly switch between your customized Javascript setup and you PHP setup without having to open a different application.
Anyways, good for Aptana, but I wanted to give some recognition to the Eclipse project. :)
Ryan CarterJul 27th 2006 1:07PM
Thanks Brent, I agree. Eclipse is an awesome product and should be recognized. Duly noted!