IDE for MEAN stack [ MongoDb,Express,AngularJs,NodeJs ]

Question

For designing the MEAN stack application, I am creating separate modules( angularjs,expressjs,nodejs,mongodb) and i am linking them manually. Can you please suggest me an IDE available for directly designing MEAN stack application.

Solution

These topics on Stack Overflow usually get flagged as contentious or something after a while. However I thought I would share my own experience of using JavaScript IDEs under Windows.

I was using PyCharm, however my dev box is ageing a bit and PyCharm is too heavy for it. Besides, as the name implies, it's really for Python, in fact I started using it for Django.

If I could afford WebStorm and a box to run it on, I'd definitely check that out :)

I fell back on the default at my workplace, Notepad++. However the linter add-on is a bit clunky, and it has real difficulty rendering JavaScript in HTML.

For now I am satisfied with my recent discovery of brackets.io. It does have an early days feel to it, but I find it's code completion particularly useful, and once I got an add-on to use JSHint instead of JSLint it chimes very well with the meanjs code I'm learning from. Meanjs uses swig templating, which parses as straight HTML so there's no problem there, but if you're wedded to a particular template module then you should look for an IDE that supports it, either directly or via add-ons. Brackets.io seems to have quite a lively add-on community at the moment.