The live preview on my Android devices required no configuration - again, it just works (through USB). live views in Chrome and Firefox without the need to save is very nice to have for the initial stages of development. the integration of Brackets is very nice. Also handy in a class environment where the machines' disk images are reset every single class the next day.
PhoneGap requires configuring things, while XDK is a simple one-time installation, and off you go. I also work with students, and this is an important aspect to me.
#Prepros vs gulp free#
With PhoneGap the free version is very limited. there are no limitations compared to Phonegap in terms of automated online building. It supports third party Cordova plugins as well. USB debugger which requires no internet connection. I also have Netbeans running side by side for more complex projects. Mind, I am used to the CLI, but XDK lets me focus on the html5 based app development, and spend less time fixing things in the CLI. After having worked with the CLI for many months, XDK's test and preview options, and click: build workflow is a bit of an eye-opener. Project management is very simple in XDK. great! It provides an efficient integrated dev environment. For the last three~four years now I have been investigating and working with various platforms to convert html5 apps and games I created/am creating to mobile apps. Yes, I have worked with Phonegap as well, and built one or two apps with it over a year ago.
#Prepros vs gulp code#
I'm enjoying it so far and on some small projects I'm actually using it for the extreme speed and somewhat better code suggestions. No refactoring or automation like function generators is really the killer for me in the end, I have way too many shortcuts remembered and I feel like I type faster, but type a lot more too.
And curiously, the things I hate about ST (can't drag/drop a file somewhere else) plague this file viewer exactly like ST, almost like they're married. I need some tabs rather than a list above the files, otherwise we're wasting a whole row of real estate here just to show a single filename. I also grew so oddly close to the 'code scrollbar' in ST where I can actually see the code in the blurry scrollbar image and find myself zipping around a lot faster by just knowing what my code looks like. I was happy to see layouts (split horizontal/vertical) but I have 3 30" screens and I need to look at 5+ files at the same time without flipping around, so I need more splits. I'll be putting in some feature requests there because I do like the built in browser automation for quick testing, but I need a few things and I'm probably not going to get them. That said, I do love hovering over direct image URLs and seeing a preview, that's very handy! The auto-complete was quicker in general but I really did need to keep my mouse away from anything or it loved to spray me with hover text.
It overall felt (with several testing extensions installed) a lot faster overall. I like the way it handles auto-adding braces and quotes a bit more than ST which always assumes you want the next line down for them (braces that is). It's a very sublime-texty experience the way the files are on the left, single-click edit/view with no commit, extensions like emmet and jslint working well and the black background I desire quite much. I've been away for a few days but I did try Brackets quite a bit more while I was gone.
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