What IDE to use for Javascript on Ubuntu 11.04?

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Solution 1

There's Aptana which is a really good IDE based one but for practical purposes you can always use a lightweight editor such as Emacs, ViM, or even Gedit or nano if you want to keep it simple. For what you're looking for Aptana sounds best. As another person suggested Webstorm is also quite good (at least I've heard) the company I used to work for used it quite a bit and they loved it so that's worth a try although it is paid of course.

Solution 2

Aptana, of course: http://www.aptana.com/ Paid license: Webstorm: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/

Solution 3

Well, I would say Netbeans, it's free and has good autocomplete for jQuery (and YUI). Also, on autocomplete you can see supported browsers for selected methods.

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Stephan

Fullstack web developper since 2002 with a preference for the backend part. Client technologies: jQuery 2+ (++), CSS 3 (+), HTML 4+ (++) Server technologies: Java 8 (+++), PHP 5 (+), Classic ASP (++), Spring 4+ (+) Database technologies: Postgresql (++), H2 database (++), Oracle (++), SQLite (+), MySQL (-) Here are the tools I use daily: Maven, Ubuntu 14+, Eclipse, pgAdmin III (yes, I don't like version 4), SQL Developper for Oracle

Updated on June 08, 2022

Comments

Stephan almost 2 years

I used to develop/debug Javascript on Windows with Visual Studio. Now, I have started working on Ubuntu and I don't feel comfortable with the default editors offered (vim, gedit etc). Do you have any IDE to propose me ? (Paid license accepted, ideally with jQuery support).
Tim Down almost 13 years

I use WebStorm (and sister products with identical HTML/CSS/JS support PhpStorm, RubyMine and IntelliJ IDEA) and I'm pretty happy with it.
Stephan almost 13 years

Sorry , but i have bad souenirs with all folks such as Emacs, Vim, nano etc. It's like , you have to be Geek in mind for using them. I'll give a try to Aptana. Does it support jQuery/jQuery UI ?
Stephan almost 13 years

I don't like Netbeans much. Is it still slow or heavy memory consumption ?
Jesus Ramos almost 13 years

I don't use jquery very often so I'm not sure but Emacs is a great editor :D, can't hate on what's worked for that long.
Stephan almost 13 years

When i see Emacs, i have an image in my mind : Richard Stallman with long hair smiling while sitting in front of a computer of the 70's;B/W photo ^^
Stephan almost 13 years

Does Eclipse for Javascript support debugging ?
Jesus Ramos almost 13 years

I've been using Emacs since I was 12 or 13 and started coding. I'm 20 now and still using it :)
sh00le almost 13 years

On my computer (CPU [email protected] Ghz, 4GB RAM) with windows7, netbeans 7.0 is responsive, and it takes cca 400MB of RAM when working with YUI or symfony projects. And I don't have any problems working with it.
BZ1 almost 13 years

I have not tried that yet. I use it as my HTML/CSS/JS editor. There is a SO thread on JavaScript debugging in Eclipse stackoverflow.com/questions/609316/debug-javascript-in-eclip‌se). There also seems to some paid native Eclipse Javascript debugging plugin like this one myeclipseide.com/…
Jesus Ramos over 12 years

Wow someone decides to downvote this after it being an answer for months.
Samuel Lampa almost 11 years

For lightweight, use geany, over gedit, anytime! It is as lightweight, but with a few key features (regex search/replace, navigate code structure, integrated run/build buttons/code folding etc), which make it work so much better as a lightweight IDE replacement!